Any way to restore/recover certs?

Software TeddyCloud
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Hi all,

I made the general dumbest mistake that we all know is unforgivable. I setup TeddyCloud on proxmox via Portainer. Everything was working great until it wasn’t. The Proxmox NVmeSSD (no raid) decided to find the end of its life and I was unable to access any data off that disk.

Technically speaking no big deal because I have a OpenNAS setup to backup all my VMs. But there is a slight issue, I learned the hard way that 1. I did not trigger a manual backup nor did 2. a auto backup start yet.

I am now unable to establish a toniecloud connection (obviously) since the certs are no longer in the teddycloud. Is there any way to maybe get hands on those certs again another way ?

I still have all the original data from the SD Card prior flashing from both Tonieboxes. Are the certs maybe in that data set? You may think now, I should have saved the certs and images on the Laptop.

Yes in fact I did. but besides the ssd on the proxmox server did I also encounter a windows corruption the same day after an unfortunate windows update, which caused me to restore from a known old functional windows point. What can I say, that did screw me because with that restore were all certs backups gone as well. I attempted to use recovery tool for deleted files but was unable to recover those files.

Now my main goal is to primary use teddycloud but sometimes it may still need a actual cloud connection (never know).

I assume those certs are MAC Address bound or would another Cert set work from a new Toniebox for all tonieboxes currently in use?

Thanks in advance. I understand that I maybe completely unable to recover from this. Unless there is a way to flash the toniebox with another image from a new box? Any chances of getting it back to it’s full glory?

Mat

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You just lost the teddyCloud server certs, just extract the certs from you box again, depending on the box fix the Box CA and Tonies CA for teddyCloud connecting to the Boxine cloud and you are good to go.

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Extract them with the USB pin cable or is there a way to do it right from teddycloud?

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Depends on your box

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They are both ESP32

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Then you’ll have to reflash then without your new CA and extract their certs from it.
You’ll also have to fix the Boxine CA on teddyCloud afterwards.

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Argh ok, I have to wait till my gear gets to germany then, all my equipment for the Serial flashing is in a box on a shipping container heading overseas. I was hoping there maybe a way to access the data via the Teddy GUI from the box directly. I did find the instructions ( ESP32 | Toniebox Hacking ) for the dump but if it is easier to just flash and load then I will do that. Until then the kids just have to live with their current tonies. Maybe i start messing with the NFC Tags to get some new content for them. Thanks for now for your help!