> From: Julius Roberts [mailto:hooliowobb...@gmail.com]
> 
> /sbin/zfs send -R Backups/natoffice@offsite | /usr/bin/encrypt -a aes -k
> ~/encryption.key -o /Offsite/encrypted_zfs_send_blob
> 
> Is there a better way to be doing this?  Ours seems a
> little resource intensive and I'm not sure if it's reliable for large >
> 500gb datasets.

Yeah, this is definitely not a good idea, because you're receiving a file on 
the destination hard disk, instead of doing a zfs receive.  In order to get 
good reliability, you need to pipe directly into zfs receive.

I'm not sure when encryption was added to zfs, but you might have to get 
solaris 11 from oracle.

Is encryption available in illumos/openindiana?

There might be some other tricks you can play, like, use some 3rd party 
encryption tool to encrypt a file that occupies the whole disk, and then mount 
the decrypted file as a zfs device, so the actual zfs receiving filesystem 
lives inside a file that will be dismounted and encrypted at rest.


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