Gotcha, thank you for your help. If you don’t mind, I’ll touch back here tomorrow or something.
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Sorry a quick follow up question (and I know perhaps this is more suited towards a Truenas forum): initially we had planned to be each other’s off-site backup buddies.
But in this scenario, is that even possible? If we each encrypt our data, how can we use Truenas’s remote backup if a password is required to even import the pool?
The user @dalto was able to sift throough that output and see the pool is encrypted.
For the sake of completeness, I’ll get teh decryption key and then see if I’m able to access the data then.
This just isn’t the way. I would take a backup using something like borgbackup and encrypt or setup a cloud backup task and directly sync the data. There is a local encryption you can use there as well.
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Oh,
so (and forgive me if my undertanding is incorrect) did he encrypt the drive as opposed to just encrypting the data?
(Does my question even make sense)?
He encrypted the pool/dataset which is how zfs encryption works.
It sounds like you are wanting file level encryption which would not be at the zfs level.
For example, if you used borgbackup and setup encryption. They backup would be a series of files and those files would be encrypted.
The same thing if you used rclone which is built into truenas. It encrypts each file.
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Gotcha gotcha gotcha. Thank you so much for the explanation
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Just a final remark on encryption on file level. You may want to try cryptomator. You friend can encrypt the usb_backup with cryptomator and give it to you. You can then use any kind of copy command to copy this your PC.
crpytomator 1.18.0 is in the AUR.
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