Gladys Plus restoration impossible

Gladys Plus
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Hello @pierre-gilles,

After a reinstallation I’m having trouble restoring my backup; I have a message in the Gladys logs:

*** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used.
Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better.
bad decrypt
40B70A86037F0000:error:1C800064:Provider routines:ossl_cipher_unpadblock:bad decrypt:../providers/implementations/ciphers/ciphercommon_block.c:124:

at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)
at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)
at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:415:12)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1101:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5) {

code: 1,
killed: false,
signal: null,

2

Hi @Nagromdark :slight_smile:

The error says « bad decrypt », which means your recovery key is not correct.

Are you sure you entered the correct recovery key?

3

I was afraid you’d tell me that… But yes, I’m sure about the key — I stored it in KeePass. Unless it changed and I forgot to note it down… So is it over, have I lost everything? :cry:

4

The recovery key never changes, unless of course you reinstall Gladys from scratch.

If I were you, I’d try restoring again, making sure that when you copy-paste you don’t accidentally include a space or a weird character at the beginning or the end.

If that doesn’t work, there’s no magic, it’s lost… :confused: You’re the only one who has the recovery key, and without it it’s impossible to decrypt the backup.