Restored VM backup, all data on mount raw image lost

spartan057

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Hello Guys,

i just restored a backup of a lxc container running on my pve instance. The container has a second .raw data image mounted. After restore the complete data got deleted from the .raw image.

1.) I know there was a "deletes all data of the running vm" window. I'm probably stupid, but i didn't got this will delete all data on all mounted .raw images, which aren't covered by the restored backup. Is this expected behaviour?

2) Any advice on how to recover the data on the image? No, the actual backup was currently broken (yeah, stupid me again to do anything substantial without a existing backup), so i don't have a backup. Since there are around 500GB on the 2 * 3TB (raid 1) HDDs, they cannot be overwritten as i shutdowned the server instantly after seeing my error.

Any help appreciated!
 
Additional info:

Disk Layout:

- Raid 1
- Luks
- RAW image in the luks partition

I already scanned it with testdisk and photorec, but no success - exactly zero files found. I'm going to see some professional data recovery guys on monday...
 

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