Nailed it!!

I could not use testdisk because it scans for physical drives for
filesystems. I instead copied the filesystem to a single file in my current
harddisk using ddrescue and needed to fsck that. However, I used to have a
one year old backup (which was missing a lot of data but had the same
filesystem anyway because it was created using dd). So I used dumpe2fs on
that old backup to find out the backup superblocks and used fsck with that.
That did the trick. I almost got everything back. :)

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