Hey Folks,
I've had a FreeNas running wonderfully for about 2 years, and after doing a large amount of updating, the system wouldn't boot (it gave an error about 'no video driver available to kernel' and wouldn't even let me into sum), and since then I have managed to drop the ball repeatedly in my recovery efforts. I re-installed on top of the broken installation, and it worked fine. Except that it wiped the media, so my /data/geli folder was lost. I do have a copy of my key, but none of the passphrases I expected it to be using are working. I also have a 'recovery passphrase' written down, but I don't believe I set a recovery key when I created the passphrase, and I don't see how/where to provide just a recovery key, so I don't know how useful that is.
I'm really hoping that the answer isn't that I'm boned and my data's lost, but it's kind of looking like it. I think I'm done with using encryption either way.
I'll keep sitting here and trying to type in the passphrase which might be right, but just thought I would post here to see if maybe I can use the recovery key.
p.s: I have seen this article https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/recover-encryption-key.16593/ but nothing in there really helps me.
I've had a FreeNas running wonderfully for about 2 years, and after doing a large amount of updating, the system wouldn't boot (it gave an error about 'no video driver available to kernel' and wouldn't even let me into sum), and since then I have managed to drop the ball repeatedly in my recovery efforts. I re-installed on top of the broken installation, and it worked fine. Except that it wiped the media, so my /data/geli folder was lost. I do have a copy of my key, but none of the passphrases I expected it to be using are working. I also have a 'recovery passphrase' written down, but I don't believe I set a recovery key when I created the passphrase, and I don't see how/where to provide just a recovery key, so I don't know how useful that is.
I'm really hoping that the answer isn't that I'm boned and my data's lost, but it's kind of looking like it. I think I'm done with using encryption either way.
I'll keep sitting here and trying to type in the passphrase which might be right, but just thought I would post here to see if maybe I can use the recovery key.
p.s: I have seen this article https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/recover-encryption-key.16593/ but nothing in there really helps me.