Advanced Backup Tools¶

Mount a Backup¶

1. Setup SSH Access and connect to your server via SSH. Elevate yourself to root once in:

   sudo -i
   

2. Any previously added Network Folder backup location (or physical drive) will be available. Enter the following command:

   start-cli backup target list
   

   

3. Select the backup target from the available list. In this example, we could use either disk-/dev/sdb1 or cifs-1:

   start-cli backup target mount disk-/dev/sdb1 "YourMasterPasswordGoesHere"
   

   

   The terminal will print the directory where your decrypted backup is now mounted.

4. ls the directory to inspect it, and continue any other operations necessary:

   

Mount a StartOS Data Drive¶

If you have an encrypted disk from a prior StartOS installation, you can mount its decrypted contents on a Linux computer.

1. Attach the StartOS data drive to your Linux desktop or laptop computer.

2. Ensure cryptsetup is installed:

   sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y cryptsetup
   

3. Enter the following command to reveal your disk’s crypto_LUKS filesystems and their labels:

   lsblk --fs
   

   

   We are interested in the services data so copy the long label ending with package-data.

4. Take that label, prepend /dev/mapper/ to it, and feed it to cryptsetup:

   sudo cryptsetup open /dev/mapper/EMBASSY_NBMVE7OASAPTIIXNEPFN6PLAPJNT72F2XAVK43L2PGB6O2JRB35A-package--data startos_data_unlocked
   

   You will be prompted for the password to decrypt the filesystem which is password, and a new device mapping called startos_data_unlocked will be created.

5. Mount the startos_data_unlocked device at a path of your choosing. Here, we will use /mnt/startos_data:

   sudo mkdir /mnt/startos_data
   sudo mount /dev/mapper/startos_data_unlocked /mnt/startos_data
   

6. Inspect the decrypted files in preparation for copying via cp, scp, rsync or similar utility: