Big problem - after systemfail volume locked

[bran]

Morning guys,

i have an big problem with my freenas 9.2.1.6 64-bit. After my system (usb stick with freenas installation) was failed completely i had to reinstall the freenas on new usb stick. Now i have restored the saved settings of the nas, but i can´t include the raid volume in the freenas. The volume "disk1" is locked. I have no password or keyfile for it.

Can anyone help me?

 

[SweetAndLow]

If you have encrypted the drives and don't have the password or keys then you are out of luck. That is the whole point of encryption.

 

[bran]

No chance?

 

[cyberjock]

Unless you can pull the keyfile off the old thumbdrive, then "no chance".

 

[SweetAndLow]

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#Encryption

 

[DrKK]

This is PRECISELY why we advise people, generally, not to use encryption. Does anyone REALLY have data that is so super secret that they have to encrypt it? There is a risk associated to encryption, as the OP demonstrates.

If you have encryption needs, why not just store a truecrypt folder on the NAS. Much less risk.

 

[bran]

I had never created the key and passphrase bevore and never download it ! But the volume will still not be unlocked.

 

[cyberjock]

I had never created the key and passphrase bevore and never download it ! But the volume will still not be unlocked.

Correct. Per the manual it says to create a passphrase, download the key, recovery key, and passphrase and store them in a secure location.

FreeNAS defaults to storing the keys *temporarily* on the USB stick until you get around to finishing the instructions for creating encrypted pools. Unfortunately you never actually finished the instructions. Hence your data is now perma-encrypted with a key that is effectively unhackable in the remaining time that Earth is likely to exist. :(

 

[bran]

This is not good :-/
So i must create new passphrase and download the key (key=passphrase?) - but what is the "encryption re-key","add recovery key" ? Its different to passphrase?

 

[panz]

You have to study, man! ;)

 

[david kennedy]

This is PRECISELY why we advise people, generally, not to use encryption. Does anyone REALLY have data that is so super secret that they have to encrypt it? There is a risk associated to encryption, as the OP demonstrates.

If you have encryption needs, why not just store a truecrypt folder on the NAS. Much less risk.

Agree with you 100% on this one. You see many questions around "encrypted volumes" here but they never address two concerns:

1) Is the data worth it?
2) What about the risks?

Too many people seem to think they are running the NSA and need high-grade encryption at home, but are not prepared to deal with it correctly.