Data recovery people have the sector-checksums the disk does. For a (potentially very expensive) file-level recovery, you just provide the passprase to them, at least the competent ones will be able to handle LUKS. Arno On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:34:56 CEST, Sven Eschenberg wrote: > Hio David, > > Well, if they can not see the files, they can hardly verify the disk and > data is readable (well they only can to a limited extent). > > Anyway, I remember that i.e. Kroll Ontrack DID offer quite a variety of > options back in the days. They would either send the 'repaired' drive back > but without any guarantee on how long it might be working outside their > lab or they would offer a sector by sector copy of what the disk spits > out. There's no guarantee whatsoever that sectors are not corrupted > (obviously). > > Regards > > -Sven > > On Tue, April 21, 2015 06:38, David Backer wrote: > > My question was, How do I get data off the broken drive > > if the data recovery people will not take it because it has > > encryption? > > Do you know of any that would? > > Even if they just copied off the raw sectors, I could use > > them to recover the data if I moved it to a new drive > > provided that the LVM info and the LUKS headers are intact > > right? > > > > Thanks again, David > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
