Encrypt existing raids/mirror

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My suggestion is to create a new capability that enables the encryption of underlying devices, without having to evacuate/recreate the pools first - eg. per the process described here

https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/how-to-encrypt-an-existing-raidz-or-mirror.16975/

The process described is an interative one, and perhaps not the ONLY way to do it - but assuming it works per the process described on that link, then perhaps include some features such as:

Prompting the admin before progressing to the next phase
Verifying pool state prior to moving to next phase (eg. no new failures
Additional Warning if using raidz/mirror (ie. single-drive redundancy)
Permit "encrypted offline export" of key zfs file systems (eg. documentation) ... just in case
Future option - one-time encrypted backup to cloud-hosted facility before migration (ie. partner with provider, or offer from iXSystems)

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Kris Moore 
July 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM

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Thorsten Behrens 
May 8, 2020 at 8:19 PM

Given that TrueNAS 12 introduces per-dataset encryption at ZFS level, inherited by the move to OpenZFS, I am not sure we need another way of doing encryption on an existing pool.

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Created May 8, 2020 at 6:20 PM
Updated July 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM