Hello, I reinstalled Debian a few weeks ago (dselect). Last night I plugged my backup drive in that I may resume normal backup procedures. In a fit of stupid, I probably lost my backup data forever. Here is what I did. Upon plugging the USB drive in I was greeted with a small dialog box that informed me that /dev/sdb1 was encrypted and that I needed to input the password. I did. Then... 1 - # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 backup 2 - # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/backup 3 - # mount /dev/mapper/backup /mnt/backup Of course when I went to look upon my existing backups the drive was empty. Of course I overwrote the file system. I did a number of things wrong....Large quantities of alcohol were involved. I tried testdisk with varying failures. Stuff was seen, ish, but it ended there. P to list files aborted testdisk. Ran it looking for Intel partitions and also for 'none'. I see 3 instances of the drive when I run testdisk with no arguments. Disk /dev/sdb - 320 GB / 298 GiB - WDC WD32 00BEVT-60ZCT0 Disk /dev/mapper/backup - 320 GB / 298 GiB Disk /dev/dm-0 - 320 GB / 298 GiB I looked around the mailing list and saw things like headers and salts and figured I was doomed. But I'm here anyway asking if there's anything I can do to attempt to retrieve my existing backups. Thanks.
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