Encrypted backup not restoring

[tom_l]

Hi and welcome to the forum. That does sound frustrating.

Can you try this script and see if you can decrypt your backups?

Get files from password protected snapshot?

Here’s how you can do it on the Pi: In the folder where the .tar (not the extracted .tar.gz files) file is, create a new file decrypt.py nano decrypt.py Paste the following: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import getopt import hashlib import tarfile import glob import os import shutil from pathlib import Path from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers import ( Cipher, algorithms, modes, ) def _password_to_key(passwor…

If so you could then load the decrypted backups to be restored.