Author: Kathryn Hemness <cckat AT reality.ucdavis DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings, If I'm running an encrypted backup of already encrypted data, does NetBackup re-encrypt the data? --Kathy _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu A
Hello Kathryn, Someone from netbackup devel will have to give the final word. But I believe that answer is yes it will encrypt the data again. To the backup software it should just be a stream of bin
Author: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:10:44 -0400
I'm assuming it wood. The NBU encryption method and keys would not necessarily be the same as those used for the original data. The question is if the data is already encrypted why would you want to
Author: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:11:57 -0400
D'oh! "wood" - I of course meant "would". It MUST be Monday. I'm assuming it wood. The NBU encryption method and keys would not necessarily be the same as those used for the original data. The questi
Author: Kathryn Hemness <cckat AT reality.ucdavis DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Jeff. My assumption was the same. I didn't think that NetBackup would bother to perform any checks to see if a file was already encrypted. My question was prompted from one of my clients. I d
How is NetBackup supposed to check? An encrypted file just likes like random binary data, so there's no way for it to really know. And even if you did have an encrypted file and the key just happene
Author: "Sesar, Steven L." <ssesar AT mitre DOT org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:39:26 -0400
It will definitely apply compression algorithms, regardless of the state of the data which is being backed up. == Steven L. Sesar Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst UNIX Application Services R
Author: Kathryn Hemness <cckat AT reality.ucdavis DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:43:55 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings, Thanks for all of the responses. Basically, they confirmed what I already believed. --Kathy == Kathryn Hemness kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu System Administrator phone: 530.752.6547 Campus