Hey everyone
My ts-451+ died. I opted to replace it with a ts-464.
I tried to keep the disks in order, but failed to actually label them…
On first boot of the 464 I had the 4 disks in the drive bays.
The volume group was visible in the UI, but it was “locked”.
I’ve tried all of the password combinations I can imagine I would’ve set… but none of them work.
I guess I’m wondering, is it possible I put the drives in the wrong order? How can I tell?
Or to put it another way, is it possible to put the disks in the wrong order and still have qnap find the volume group, but unable to decrypt the disk?
If you had the drives encrypted but forgot the password, you will have a bad time…I hope you have usable backups
That’s the thing, I don’t think I forgot the password. I set it two months ago.
So, I’m wondering if it is possible to get the order of the disks wrong that might lead to disk password not being decrypt-able?
I have a partial backup…
I also have a script that’s trying to brute force the disk… sigh
Basically, read a dictionary and echo PASS | cryptsetup open /dev/mapper/vg1-lg1 NAME && echo PASS && exit
Disk order should not matter on CAT2 devices…If in doubt open a ticket with QNAP. Try pruning the password at 12 or 16 char (there was issues with this in the past)
Good call out on length, thanks!
Did that fix your issue ?
i updated my script to truncate down to 12, 16, and 20
running it now
fingers crossed :nervous:
Instead of bruteforcing, try to decrypt your disks via GUI with your known password, but reduce that to the first 12 or 16 characters. (That’s what I meant)
there are a few possibilities
so, it’s safer to let brute take a swing
i won’t have to keep juggling which combo has or has not been attempted