{"id":624,"date":"2011-06-19T18:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T17:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2011-06-19T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T17:32:09","slug":"revover-encrypted-home-directory-ubuntu-11-04-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/revover-encrypted-home-directory-ubuntu-11-04-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Revover Encrypted Home Directory – Ubuntu 11.04 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am having some problems with my hard-drive, so I was trying to backup my data the reside on my encrypted (the default Ubuntu encryption) home directory.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu 11.04 offers a command (ecryptfs-recover-private<\/strong><\/code>) that help you perform this operation easily. Simply follow the steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Boot Ubuntu 11.04 with a live-cd or usb.<\/li>\n
  2. Mount the partition that includes the encrypted directory. You can easily do this by selecting Places -> PartitionName<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  3. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal<\/code>).<\/li>\n
  4. Run\n
    sudo ecryptfs-recover-private<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    You will be prompted to enter the password that corresponds to the user of this partition. After this, the partition should be mounted at a folder indicated by the output of the command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    I am having some problems with my hard-drive, so I was trying to backup my data the reside on my encrypted (the default Ubuntu encryption) home directory. Ubuntu 11.04 offers a command (ecryptfs-recover-private) that help you perform this operation easily. Simply follow the steps: Boot Ubuntu 11.04 with a live-cd or usb. Mount the partition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37],"tags":[192,191,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ouW6-a4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}