For the first time in over a year I needed to access some very old system backups, and found that the dataset was locked. [image] This kind of thing has happened before on Scale, and normally in this situation I export the parent dataset’s key and use it to unlock the children ones… Except here t…

Was able to find an archive with the keys from an older system upgrade. Paired with help from this blog post I got the datasets unlocked: 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 w…

Datasets no longer decrypted on boot - any way to recover?

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winnielinnie January 2, 2026, 12:35am 7

Consider doing this next time.

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Datasets no longer decrypted on boot - any way to recover?

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