Amanda-Users

Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-03 12:24:36
Subject: Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?
From: Matthew Moffitt <moffitt.10 AT sociology.osu DOT edu>
To: amanda-users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:45 -0400
I've been through this but still don't have it working. On the particular disk entry (backing up with gtar) encryption doesn't run during amdump. amcheck reports the error:

WARNING: testhost:/disk1/user/srl does not support server data encryption

-Matt

On 4/3/2008 3:56 AM, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Wednesday, 02.04.2008 at 16:54 -0500, Nomad wrote:

I'm having some strange issues as well, trying to do encrypted backups on
FreeBSD.  Let me ask this:

1.  Is encrypted storage of backups a production feature?

I got this working without too much of a problem.

1. Create a key file and a passphrase as described in 'man amcrypt',
store them in the locations indicated.

2. Use a config such as the following to perform the actual encryption:

define dumptype whatever {

   # [... other settings ...]
   encrypt server
   server_encrypt "/usr/sbin/amcrypt"
}

Dave.