Recover Locked Contabo VPS Data

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Budget / Salary$50–100
TypeFreelance project
LocationRemote
Posted1 hour ago
My CentOS Web Panel Pro VPS at Contabo was recently compromised and went completely unresponsive. At the moment, I cannot risk another forced reboot—the last reboot left the machine in an unrecoverable state and I had to fall back to a snapshot.

The immediate priority is to regain access without rebooting if at all possible. I can still reach the Contabo control-panel / rescue area, but every attempt to open the rescue console returns a connection error, so no shell is currently available. Standard SSH and VNC are both being refused.

Here’s what I need from you:
• Diagnose why the Contabo rescue console will not open and establish at least one working shell or file-level access method.
• Once access is restored, verify system integrity, copy out every website’s files and MySQL/MariaDB dumps so I can migrate them to a clean server.
• Leave detailed notes on whatever you discover about the breach so I can harden the new environment.

Please confirm your approach to gaining console access without triggering a reboot, the tools you plan to use (e.g. LVM mounts in rescue, chroot, rsync, SCP), and how long you’ll need once credentials are supplied.

I’m ready to start immediately and will stay available to provide any panel tokens or snapshot IDs you might require.
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