Timeline for Set up mirroring RAID, all good. Can it be encrypted after the fact?
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 0:33 | vote | accept | unsafe_where_true | ||
| Feb 25, 2022 at 0:05 | answer | added | Andy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 21:24 | comment | added | r2d3 | @davidgo, I am lacking the linux experience. Don't know if LUKS supports converting existing partitions/volumes. I guess that is the main question. Linux-raid should present a virtual RAID-device on which LUKS operates. I was thinking more about Truecrypt or Veracrypt. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 18:32 | comment | added | davidgo | Im not aware that LUKS (Linux full disk encryption ) can encrypt an in-use disk. The easiest solution may be the rebuild the NAS. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 18:31 | comment | added | davidgo | @r2d3 - presumably PopOA / Linux and "all data" imply he is planning on using LUKS. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 16:24 | comment | added | JW0914 | I'm unsure about hardware RAID, but software RAID [ZFS] allows creating a new encrypted dataset alongside non-encrypted datasets, and if you have ~32GB of RAM, you may want to consider using TrueNAS as the NAS OS (TrueNAS is RAM intensive when copying large amounts of data to its shares), otherwise there are Linux distros that support ZFS (software RAID is superior to hardware RAID for a wide variety of reasons]. General FYI: unless using SSDs, encryption will have a large performance impact with mechanical HDDs, so unless actually needed, it's generally not recommended in a non-SSD NAS. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 14:44 | comment | added | unsafe_where_true | Not sure I understand @r2d3, if you mean what I am going to use to encrypt the drives - I don't know! In fact suggestions appreciated, the question is primarily about if it is possible. My search terms didn't yield responses to what I am looking for...Then, if it is possible, how to do it... | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | r2d3 | As long as you keep your program for full drive encryption secret, nobody will bother giving / is able to deliver an answer that is valid for all available crypto software. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 13:53 | history | asked | unsafe_where_true | CC BY-SA 4.0 |