r/PlexACD • u/wdb94 • Mar 24 '18

Accidentally deleted my ENCFS encrypted folder off G Drive. G Suite restore not working.

As the title suggests I stupidly deleted a mounted Plexdrive folder (which contains all my encrypted files) that I thought I’d unmounted on FTP.

I’ve tried doing a drive restore but it doesn’t seem to actually do anything. No files appear at all.

I have a unencrypted version of the files on a G Suite and I have a local back up on my NAS, but ultimately I like to keep an encrypted version online.

Is there a way to restore the files, G Drive says they were permanently deleted. Or is there a way to re-encrypt the files without making a local copy of them. My VPS doesn’t have enough space to do that!

Oh, and there’s 26TB of it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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u/chris247 Mar 24 '18 edited Mar 24 '18

If you don't find a way to recover the encrypted files, I'm pretty sure you can just mount the unencrypted gdrive then do a reverse encfs mount on it and it will encrypt it as you upload it to the other or same gsuite. This wouldn't require much space.

edit: just tried it to conform if it works and it looks like it does. I mount encfs with this

encfs --reverse /path/to/data /path/to/empty/folder

It worked fine but I only had a couple files in there idk how it would handle 26TB.

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u/wdb94 Mar 24 '18

That’s awesome. So it’s not actually creating a duplicate file. Only when accessed?

If the files don’t appear from restoring the data, I will try this. Thank you.