ZFS is fantastic and it can indeed restore files that have been encrypted as long as you have an earlier snapshot.

However, it would not have helped in this scenario. In fact, it might have actually made recovery efforts much more difficult.

It could have helped by automatically sending incremental snapshots to a secondary drive, which you could then have restored the original drive from. However, this would have required the foresight to set that up in the first place. This process also would not have been quick; you would need to copy all of the data back just like any other complete drive restoration.

It translates to this meme template.

I was about to ask why this is better than the docker installation, but I see step one is to install docker haha.

I’ve been running the docker container for a long time, it works very well. It is a bit more complicated if you try and use extensions that require seperatw containers (like setting up collabora), but that can be done as well. It’s just more complicated.

I do remember needing to know how to access the internal terminal a few times, but I don’t remember why. If I think of it I’ll come back and add instructions.

Edit: It’s to be able to run occ commands:

Sudo docker exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php occ “Command goes here”

Sudo docker exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php occ files:scan --all

I’m not sure if this is helpful to you or not, because it’s not what you asked. I just don’t mount them on boot though.

I have a script that requires a unique password that decrypts everything that I actually care about. If that hasn’t been run, then the server starts emailing me every 15 minutes until I do.

The server is not setup to reboot unless I manually tell it to or there is a power outage, so logging in to run the script has never really been an issue. At most, I’ve had to SSH in from my phone maybe a handful of times.

Ubuntu has ZFS on root as one of the options in the normal graphical installer. I have it running on multiple machines.

To be fair, this one is true… Its just that they are also designed to protect you from stray microwaves lol

It’s not, look at postgres under both DB in the last picture. That’s not just the same writing, it’s identical.

I know you said this is wrong, but my APC racks that look just like that also use 12-24 pilot point screws. They do have a little cutting notch that clears out the paint when you screw them in though