Questions on PhotoRec (got hit with QNAP Ransomware!)
Posted: 29 May 2021, 17:11
Hello. I was unfortunately part of the recent QLocker hack on QNAP devices and they encrypted 500gigs of my system which I am trying to recover. I am running into an issue in that PhotoRec instructions say to use an external drive the size or larger than the NAS however I have 28tb of stuff on my NAS and no external drives (mainstream anyway) are this size. Do I have any options?
I was thinking there are tons of files like Plex Movies I could offload to another external to get it under 14tb but I fear that moving files around will lessen the chance for recovery. Is that true?
Also I am actually using a custom version of PhotoRec that QNAP incorporated into their own app called QRescue. Even tho my external drive is 14tb I ran in anyway and I figured I could just delete stuff I def dont care about as it restores. Is that okay to do? It involves me constantly monitoring but I could keep it under the 14tb limit that way.
Also I noticed that it was running quick the first 12hrs but now is running quite slow. Is this a normal process? My QNAP dashboard logged out so Im not sure if related. its definitely still running as I see files being generated just at a slower pace.
Lastly, is there any way to have PhotoRec ONLY recover certain file types? For example, only .jpg files. This might aid in my space issue I mentioned as it will ignore restoring 20gig movie files.
Thanks a bunch!
Stephen
I was thinking there are tons of files like Plex Movies I could offload to another external to get it under 14tb but I fear that moving files around will lessen the chance for recovery. Is that true?
Also I am actually using a custom version of PhotoRec that QNAP incorporated into their own app called QRescue. Even tho my external drive is 14tb I ran in anyway and I figured I could just delete stuff I def dont care about as it restores. Is that okay to do? It involves me constantly monitoring but I could keep it under the 14tb limit that way.
Also I noticed that it was running quick the first 12hrs but now is running quite slow. Is this a normal process? My QNAP dashboard logged out so Im not sure if related. its definitely still running as I see files being generated just at a slower pace.
Lastly, is there any way to have PhotoRec ONLY recover certain file types? For example, only .jpg files. This might aid in my space issue I mentioned as it will ignore restoring 20gig movie files.
Thanks a bunch!
Stephen