Remove Encryption

ArgaWoW

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Jul 4, 2015
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Hello,
I'm looking for a way to remove encryption from my volumes. I found some old discussions about it saying it's not possible to do this without losing the data. Since I have quite a considerable amount of data and a backup is therefore rather difficult, I would like to ask if there is currently a possibility to remove the encryption. If it was from the command line it would be great if someone could help me with that.

Thanks in advance
arga
 

Arwen

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May 17, 2014
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No, you can not remove any ZFS encrypted datasets without data loss.

Their is only one way, move the files elsewhere. Either to a new, un-encrypted ZFS dataset. Or to a backup.
If your entire pool is encrypted, then it becomes problematic to create a new un-encrypted dataset.
 
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