Good day all, I recently moved and was having difficulty with my truenas-scale box connecting to the network properly. I figured there must be some sort of issue with the configuration, so the most logical conclusion I could draw was the #5 option on the local command prompt, “Reset configuration t…

[image] winnielinnie: it comes down to the user’s responsibility, just like with anything else. This is not the fault of encryption itself. Indeed, but that is the same logic as the RFA keeps repeating to ensure a maximum number of guns keep circulating everywhere. After each and every traged…

[image] Heracles: By posting something like this, you encourage people to use something they do not control, they do not understand, that threaten their data directly, all of that for no serious gain. So sure you can have your opinion but I would suggest you consider the impact of that one on n…

[image] Heracles: But at the end, what good can a gun do ? Quite a lot, really, but that’s getting wildly off-topic. You’re right that encryption carries a not-insignificant risk of data loss, as we’ve seen (once again) in this very topic. It’s less fragile than it was before native ZFS enc…

[image] Heracles: But at the end, what good can a gun do ? [image] dan: Quite a lot, really, but that’s getting wildly off-topic. LET’S DO THIS! @kris will be SO THRILLED to create a “Politics” category for the forum! He’s been waiting for the right opportunity! …

[image] Heracles: One should get used to key management and recovery with file level solution first like @chuck32 using Veracrypt before going to pool level / dataset level. Full disclosure, I use veracrypts full disk encryption on my windows machines, so comparable to pool level encryption. …

Oh God, I just wanted some advice about an issue and now I’ve started WWIII!

I stumbled upon this post, I have no idea if it may help in recovering the keys from the files you found: TrueNAS Scale & ZFS Wrapping Key I've been playing with TrueNAS scale recently and while the BUI allows you to export/download ZFS wrapping key I wanted to know how to get ... …

I’ll have to give this a try later today, thanks!

Nope, no dice, the issue would require that I have a .db file that has the encrypted key in it, but I somehow do not

Accidental "Reset configuration to defaults" has locked the zpool

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chuck32 April 11, 2024, 3:40pm 28

I stumbled upon this post, I have no idea if it may help in recovering the keys from the files you found:

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Accidental "Reset configuration to defaults" has locked the zpool

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