John Childermass
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- Oct 20, 2016
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Hi everyone,
I'm finally getting around to updating from TrueNAS CORE 12.0-U8.1 to 13. I'm planning to do this by switching trains. However, I want to back up the essential config info first, in case something goes wrong.
1) If I backup the config under System > General > Save Config, should I Export Secret Seed, or is it better not to? I'll just be updating in-place, so does that mean I don't need to export the secret seed, as it will remain available on the drive? Or is it safer to export it, as long as I'm careful with where I store this file?
2) I have a single pool, Encryption Type = Key, with all datasets inheriting encryption options from the parent. If I Export Dataset Keys, to get dataset_poolname_keys.json, is that all I need to decrypt the pool and its datasets if something goes wrong?
3) Apart from the config file in (1) and the key file in (2) is there anything else I should backup before doing the update? (Or, in general, that I should store for safekeeping if something goes wrong in the future, to ensure I can recover?)
Thank you in advance!
I'm finally getting around to updating from TrueNAS CORE 12.0-U8.1 to 13. I'm planning to do this by switching trains. However, I want to back up the essential config info first, in case something goes wrong.
1) If I backup the config under System > General > Save Config, should I Export Secret Seed, or is it better not to? I'll just be updating in-place, so does that mean I don't need to export the secret seed, as it will remain available on the drive? Or is it safer to export it, as long as I'm careful with where I store this file?
2) I have a single pool, Encryption Type = Key, with all datasets inheriting encryption options from the parent. If I Export Dataset Keys, to get dataset_poolname_keys.json, is that all I need to decrypt the pool and its datasets if something goes wrong?
3) Apart from the config file in (1) and the key file in (2) is there anything else I should backup before doing the update? (Or, in general, that I should store for safekeeping if something goes wrong in the future, to ensure I can recover?)
Thank you in advance!