So, I think I might have goofed. This happened over weeks, so my info may not be exact.
Before christmas, I signed up for a unlimited backup account. It is accessible via WEBDAV for Linux.
I mounted the folder as /mnt/MyCloudData via davfs. Copied some files, worked well.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided I'd get fancy and use EncFS to add an encrypted subfolder to the webdav mounted folder so I'd have encrypted webdav file storage. I followed the instructions at:
http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-linux-and-windows-with-encfs/I copied some files over successfully and cheered to myself.
A week ago, I decided I'd share the encrypted folder and the public folder out to my network via samba.
Today I decided I'd go back and start organizing files and such.. I noticed that "mount" didn't show any webdav. I did "ls" on the folder and saw the public folder and the encrypted folder but not other folders. I figured davfs either crashed, disconnected or my system rebooted.
I absentmindedly said "alright, I'll just mount /mnt/MyCloudData since I have it defined in fstab"... After I did that, I was able to see the encrypted folder and the public folder still for a few minutes... then boom, they were gone and only my webdav folders remained. I lamely hoped that the mount command would sync folders and not overwrite them when using davfs.
So my questions are:
1:) Can I recover my Public and Encrypted folder that disappeared? ( I use BTRFS for my FS if it makes a difference).
2:) How can I prevent that kind of synch failure next time? Either by:
Making sure webdav is mounted?
OR
Synching any offline writes to the webdav drive?
Thanks for any help you can give!
