How to mount or unlock encrypted QuTS Hero ZFS volume manually?

Last modified date: 2022-06-24

Applicable Products:

QuTS Hero
Encrypted ZFS volume

Scenarios:

The encrypted data volume is locked

or the encrypted data volume is un-mounted.

You can use the following commands via ssh to mount and unlock the data volume manually.

Use the command below to know and get the path of the data volume, “encfolder1”

[~] # cat /etc/volume.conf | grep -A4 encfolder1
volName = encfolder
encryption = yes
ssdCache = no
creating = no
mappingName = zpool2/zfs23
Get the key file name and path of the encrypted volume

[~] # zfs get keysource zpool2/zfs23 -H -o value -p
/tmp/temp.XHPDfk
Prepare the key source file

[~] # echo -n | md5sum | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/temp.XHPDfk
[~]

Note: <password> ; Enter the passphrase of the encrypted volume here
Verify the key source file with the volume

[~] # /sbin/zfs validate zpool2/zfs23 /tmp/temp.XHPDfk
verification succeeded
Mount the data volume

[~] # /sbin/zfs mount zpool2/zfs23
[~] #
[~] # /sbin/zfs mount zpool2/zfs23/RecentlySnapshot
[~] #
Modify the volume statusFind corresponding data volume section in /etc/volume.conf and modify its status to 0 and then save it