Recovering from Data Loss due to LUKS Failure
Background Story Last week, I experienced a major data loss on my daily driver computer due to encryption failure. Last time I had encountered this sort of situation was over a decade ago with TrueCrypt on an external HDD and unfortunately lost everything that weren’t backed up. I’ve recovered everything from backup this time so I decide to document it. The entire storage on my daily driver is encrypted with LUKS and it suddenly fails on boot decryption. I don’t have the header backed up and have stopped using Timeshift for a long time due to it’s unschedulable which lead to chaotic performance impact. ...