Recover all setting without config after boot ssd failure

I finally got my new boot drives and re-installed the same version I had been running before. I imported the freenas-v1.db, but it didn’t unlock one of the datasets. The missing information is in this post, where you have to tar together the database and the pwenc_secret file:

Save configuration database with pwenc_secret file

Alternatively, you can use the python script here to extract the keys without creating the tar file and unlock the dataset in the GUI.

Extract Dataset Keys

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