Like everyone, I want to automate as much as I can. Including automated spin up of encrypted pools. Sometimes I have a power outage that lasts longer than my battery backups allow. My servers shut down, and then boot back up, after power is restored. I have native encrypted pools that I would also like to come back up automatically. Using TrueNAS, they do come up automatically, but that’s because the keys are loaded locally on the machine, and wouldn’t prevent anything should the whole server be stolen.
So here is my question/topic for discussion. What solutions has people come up with for this type of issue?
Here is a reddit thread I came across while researching the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/w33bss/looking_for_best_practice_for_unlocking_encrypted/
In the thread someone mentioned an NFS share from another computer hidden in there home, and the OP, put a USB stick on the other side of a USB keystone jack, inside the wall. Both really neat ideas.