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[[!meta title="Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when Tails doesn't start"]]
If your Tails becomes broken, for example, if it no longer starts, follow these instructions to recover data from your Persistent Storage.
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<p>If instead, your Tails USB stick does start but the Persistent Storage fails
to unlock, refer to our instructions on [[recovering data from the Persistent
Storage when it has file system errors|fsck]].</p>
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<p>We recommend you always keep a current backup of your Persistent Storage. To learn
how to create a backup of your Persistent Storage, see our [[instructions on
how to back up your Persistent Storage to another Tails USB
stick|backup]].</p>
We are presenting here 3 recovery techniques that work in different cases. We recommend that you try the 3 techniques one after the other.
[[Doing a manual upgrade|recover#upgrade]]
Doing a manual upgrade of your broken Tails might allow you to start your
USB stick again and use your Persistent Storage like before.
[[Unlocking from another Tails and copying using `rsync`|recover#rsync]]
If doing a manual upgrade doesn't work, you might be able to unlock your
Persistent Storage from another Tails USB stick and copy its content using
`rsync` on the command line.
[[Recovering from a partition image using forensics tools|recover#image]]
If unlocking your Persistent Storage from another Tails USB stick fails, you
might be able to recover some or most of your data from a partition image
using advanced forensics tools.
<h1 id="upgrade">Doing a manual upgrade</h1>
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Doing a manual upgrade of your broken Tails might allow you to start your USB
stick again and use your Persistent Storage like before.
Refer to our instructions on how to do a manual upgrade, either:

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