Backing Up Metadata of Encrypted Pool

[Mr_N]

Could anyone assist me with my attempt to backup my geli metadata as mentioned in this thread?

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...gle-freenas-primary-storage.17316/#post-93073

My drives are da0 -> da5 so the command dusan mentioned needed adjustment...

I thought if i just use the following and manually name the files with the serial copied from the 'view disks' screen of the FreeNAS GUI as follows it should work:

geli backup da0 serial_for_da0.eli
geli backup da1 serial_for_da1.eli

etc

but all i got was the error msg:

geli: MD5 hash mismatch: not a geli provider?

so what am i doing wrong?

I tried it using da0p2 / da1p2 / da2p2 etc and got no error msg and a bunch of 512 byte files, how do i know if it worked?

 

[m0nkey_]

I can only assume you're trying to backup your key. This is covered in the documentation: http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html#managing-encrypted-volumes

 

[Mr_N]

No the geli meta data as described in the thread i linked to...

 

[dlavigne]

Did you figure this out?

 

[Mr_N]

Nup still not sure if ive backed it up properly or not, I mean i've backup up something lol if only dusan was still around the forums to lend some expertise :)