Flashbackups and Encryption
Created: 23 Dec 2010 | 6 comments
There is a business need to encrypt the backups that are currently being taken at my place of work. A lot of the backups are Flashbackups and I was wondering if anyone had tried this before?
Currently running Netbackup 6.5.4 and think I read somewhere that encrpyting Flashbackups was not possible.
Has anyone implemented encryption with Flashbackup?
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Dont think that's possible,
Dont think that's possible, FlashBackup is a block level backup of the File System. Can't encrypt a block. Also dont think it will be worth much without the catalog information, so its basically encrypted anyways :)
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Riaan Badenhorst
ITs easy ;)
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How about hardware encryption ??
I think we can use hardware encryption in this situation ?
Here are few options.
1) Install and configure NetBackup Media Server Encryption Option (MSEO)
2) Configure NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS) ONLY if you are running LTO-4 or IBM Total Storage drives .
3) Use a 3rd party hardware device to encrypt the data.
We use Decru appliances
We use Decru (now NetApp) devices to encrypt all of our backups, whether they're FlashBackup or not. These appliances have now reached (or about to reach) their end of sale date.
Your other option is to investigate LTO-4 tape drives and encrypt at the drive level. That's what we'll likely do next.
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Encryption Attribute not supproted by Flash backup
This doc is for NB 5.x, i dont find info for NB 6.x but i hope its similar only
The following limitations exist with the FlashBackup option for Windows:
- "collect disaster information"
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
Thanks, Karthikeyan Sundaram.
Thanks
Thanks for all the responses. It's as I thought, Flashbackups don't seem to be supported for Netbackup Encryption. Will have to try encrypting them at the drive level as Ed has suggested.
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