Re: Re: Help! toasted LUKS key slot

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there is a comment from clemens on this list why luks doesn't have
such a function.
i think its also on the luks page.

Billy Crook schrieb:
> It would be nice if lukes had an easy header backup function like
> TrueCrypt does.
>
> On 3/7/07, Sebastian Bork <bork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> To update you about my troubles ... if someone is interested at all:
>>
>> I did it! By assembling an array md0 of one disk (snapshot of the
>> data,
>> but some weeks old), activating vg0, copying 132096 bytes from the
>> beginning of /dev/vg0/crypt on a USB stick, booting into an initrd
>> shell, copying those 132096 bytes to the beginning of the volume
>> containing the up-to-date data and then using cryptsetup luksOpen I
>> managed to decrypt the master key (which was in the data copied)
>> and to
>> open the volume. A vgchange -a y vg1 later I had all my logical
>> volumes
>> back, with the up-to-date data, not the stuff that was weeks old.
>>
>> Now I need some sleep. And after that a better backup concept.
>> Thank you
>> for listening.
>>
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