[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

[Julius Roberts]

Hi guys,

due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS
pool offsite, so we're relying on a zfs send to a USB disk.  We'd like that
encrypted.

Currently i have an automated process which creates a zpool Offsite on a
big USB HDD, and then runs something like this, then exports the Offsite
pool.

/sbin/zfs send -R Backups/natoffice at 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.

-- 
Kind regards, Jules

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