I am currently building a NAS server configuration using FreeNas, I was wondering if I wanted to encrypt the contents of the NAS, what options do I have to do this? and how would it work?
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I am currently building a NAS server configuration using FreeNas, I was wondering if I wanted to encrypt the contents of the NAS, what options do I have to do this? and how would it work?
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After too many requests to recover encrypted content for over a decade (maybe 2?) I will write that such is a bad idea if we need to keep our content safe and secure. Today we can easily keep a second copy on another drive or more and it's safe. You may find those that reduce their copy count to ONE LAST COPY then encrypt it then ask "What happened?" when they lose it.
Given my experience I can't help folk destroy their files.
Bob
It has documentation also. If that doesn't answer your question, their forum is a better place than this one.
I did a quick Google search for Freenas encryption, and in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS I found one of the features offered is "Disk encryption with geli" (geli is a link). That sounds promising, I'd say.
Kees