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ultra2d | 7 months ago

Do you use encrypted ZFS?

I have dabbled before with FreeIPA and other VMs on a Debian host with ZFS. For simplicity, I switched to running Seafile with encrypted libraries on a VPS and back that up to a local server via ZFS send/receive. That local server switches itself on every night, updates, syncs and then goes into sleep again. For additional resiliency, I'm thinking of switching to ZFS on Linux desktop (currently Fedora), fully encrypted except for Steam. Then sync that every hour or so to another drive in the same machine, and sync less frequently to a local server. Since the dataset is already encrypted, I can either sync to an external drive or some cloud service. Another reason to do it like this is that storing a full photo archive within Seafile on a VPS is too costly.

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mirdaki|7 months ago

Yes! On top of the data safety features of ZFS, the fact you can encrypt a dataset and incremental send/receive is a fantastic ability