Today, I'm thankful for the combination of these two #FreeBSD features:
- geli-based storage encryption
- ZFS
Before I fly out to help with a family medical emergency, I'm backing up my most important bits to a geli-encrypted encrypted NVMe USB enclosure.
It's ZFS all the way down, so I can do something like:
# zpool import backups
$ zfs snapshot rpool/home/shawn@2026-06-27
$ zfs send -vp rpool/home/shawn@2026-06-27 > /backups/laptop/home-2026-06-27.zfs
Rinse and repeat for each ZFS dataset I'm interested in backing up, both for the laptop itself and for the ZFS datasets contained within the VMs on the laptop.