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So I had this friend who has his own company, hosting is part of their business. He gave me a VM to host some websites, test stuff and whatnot. Free. I have quite some important stuff on there (personal, and a few demo sites for clients). No backups of my own, because they do nightly tape backups, and RAID accross physically seperated datacenters. Today, he just shut down my VM - for personal reasons (really personal, nothing to do with his company whatsoever, he hates me lately for something I can't influence). He doesn't say weather or when Ill get the data, and gave me no time to pull it. Can/should I go to the police? I just want my data back, but I don't know if I can do anything as it was free (no contract).
Switzerland, btw.

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  • 0
    Ask him.

    You have no position to report to police as there is no official contract and you havent paid anything.

    I dont know rules in your country.

    Just ask him again.
  • 1
    yer...I would wait a while and ask him again..
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    I did. He charged me 200$ for the extraction of the disk image :/ I at least hope all the data is ok...
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    All my data is ok. HOWEVER

    mount -o rw,remount /
    cd /boot/
    l
    rm initrd.img-4.8.0-* vmlinuz-4.8.0-* System.map-4.8.0-*
    rm abi-4.8.0-* config-4.8.0-*
    l
    cd /root/
    l
    ls -l
    pwd

    This is what an expert found in the bash history. You can only do this with access to the hypervisor, and only he and a few of his employees have that! This dickhead paused the VM, deleted the Kernel and charged me 200$ for giving my files back...
  • 0
    Oh and he also deleted some, abd modified other logfiles to try to hide his dirty work :/
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