On Tue, April 21, 2015 20:49, Arno Wagner wrote: > Data recovery people have the sector-checksums the disk does. They have, and might give you a bad sector list (for a sector copy that is). Then again, you never know WHAT failure occured - there is a slight chance of recovering data with coherent checksums that is broken. Not all failures have physical media damage or completely fried chips ;-). > 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. Indeed. File Recovery is usually VERY costly (at least to disk overhaul - cheapest - and sector copy - medium cost). Usually they will pretty much offer whatever you want. I.E.: They will take a look at the disk, check if the LUKS header is intact (or send a recovered copy on demand for the customer to check it) and will choose to proceed the way the customer wants. > > Arno > Regards -Sven > 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 > _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
