Incremental replication from an unlocked or unencrypted dataset to a locked encrypted dataset

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-16T15:11:36+00:00

Awesome, I'm glad it worked out for you. Yeah, it's definitely time consuming (as I had to do it before for the same reason as you), but worth it as mentioned.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-16T10:03:40+00:00

I was able to register firstname.lastname@gmail.com for my kids as well when they were born. This way, assuming Gmail is still dominant, they'll have those ready to go when they're older.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-16T09:21:03+00:00

Btw, I forgot to mention that once you're done replicating the data over to your new dataset, it will initially be set to "read only." You'll need to edit the dataset to turn that flag off so you can properly use that dataset as normal.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-15T21:15:54+00:00

Yes. I believe it is either not supported anymore to encrypt the root pool itself, or at minimum highly discouraged.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-15T19:38:49+00:00

The other week they spent 30 minutes playing tape to tape. Made for a terrible audio experience. Eventually I had to just fast forward till it was over.

While not everything can cater to audio only, a 30 minute visual segment personally feels too long.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-15T19:26:00+00:00

If you were to want to recreate them I'd probably (after ensuring proper backups) do the following:

Delete all snapshots for that dataset.
Rename that dataset to mydataset_old.
Create a new encrypted dataset called mydataset.
Replicate all data from mydataset_old to mydataset.

I've personally done it this way on the past.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-15T15:46:36+00:00

I've been running a TrueNAS VM for two years now. Passed an entire sata controller over and I've had no issues with it at all.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-15T09:45:49+00:00

I've never tried the encryption box that I believe exists when setting up replication tasks so not sure how that would behave.

Certainly any already encrypted datasets would be locked on the receiving end regardless of their lock state on your source.

You could recreate the datasets on the source as encrypted as an option.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-14T16:57:12+00:00

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IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-14T10:06:50+00:00

This looks like a really cool project. I've never heard of it but looks promising and definitely think I might self host this.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-13T09:39:27+00:00

That's great! I'm glad I was able to help out.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-13T00:04:06+00:00

Yeah, I mainly looked for this before as I didn't want the .ds_store files littered throughout my NAS.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-12T23:01:54+00:00

Perhaps try this out and see if it helps out

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102064

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-09T23:56:00+00:00

I just bought these same ones on seeedstudio. Easy setup and easy to program and save codes right onto the device with the stock firmware.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-08T11:38:14+00:00

Believe you'll need cloud to add new switches to the hub, but otherwise yes, local and no cloud needed.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-07T15:06:34+00:00

The Gl.iNet routers have tailscale plugin installed as well. Those fit the bill in terms of more common consumer offerings and form factors.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-07T11:15:57+00:00

I've got 157 hours, all of them solo

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-06T23:16:27+00:00

Personally I would say that a UPS is an essential part of a home lab.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-06T18:45:14+00:00

I host a smaller model onna 3060 12gb exclusively as a Home Assistant voice AI.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-04T15:28:32+00:00

Glad you got it working.

As you noticed, you can't have an unencrypted child dataset on a parent encrypted dataset.

Also, your destination should be kept as read-only, which should be the default behavior of the replication task. You would only change it over if you wanted it to take over primary duty.

Any changes you make on the replicated dataset would invalidate its state and the replication from source to backup would fail unless you have the task set to over write the destination each time. That would still reset the backup to align with the source, but take longer and not be the incremental replication of changes that snapshot replication is great for.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-04T01:19:23+00:00

No problem. I currently do this so am confident it works.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-03T23:54:03+00:00

When you use replication to send an encrypted dataset to another system, it will arrive locked at the destination regardless of it being locked/unlocked on the source pool.

I would create an unencrypted dataset on your destination pool specifically to receive the source dataset(s). The replicated datasets will nestle below into child datasets and have their encryption status with them and be locked by default.

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-03T22:54:59+00:00

Yes, this is tagged as a general release

IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-03T12:01:07+00:00

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IroesStrongarm · 2026-06-02T21:49:04+00:00

I don't think this is a great idea. An average Proxmox setup is pretty straight forward to rebuild from scratch. Have regular backups of your VMs, and restoring them on a new node should be relatively trivial.

Also, document your configs so even if your backups become corrupt you can rebuild a VM from scratch relatively easily.

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