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I have a local ZFS backup server which sends encrypted incremental snapshots to my rsync.net account, no problem. You can't mount the encrypted snapshots since freebsd ZFS doesn't support that yet, but I don't need that (and it would defeat the security point anyway).

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This seems strange to me - any version of ZFS recent enough to support receiving encrypted snapshots should support mounting them (which, AFAIK, means "OpenZFS-running FreeBSD implementations" - I don't believe the non-OpenZFS, integrated implementation ever got encryption support of any kind).

I've seen several people report using OpenZFS encryption on FBSD on various mailing lists, so I'm 95% sure it's not secretly broken on there.

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