On 02 3, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Preston de Guise wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On 03/02/2010, at 17:19 , tkimball wrote:
>> All involved systems are solaris 10 Sparc. Server is 7.4.4 EBS, client is
>> 7.4.1 EBS IIRC (at least 7.4).
>>
>> I need to enable Client Encryption on one of our manual backups (run from
>> save cmd on client). After some trial and error (and an incorrect manpage
>> on asm names *sigh*) I see a test backup of /etc, from save command, using
>> the aes asm on the client.
>>
>> However, a recovery test on another system does not ask you for the
>> passphrase (which I set in the Server Config under NMC). I'm using the
>> recover command instead of nwrecover for testing.
>>
>> So, is this actually using Encryption or not? Do Encrypted backups use the
>> server passphrase when running manually? I don't care either way as long as
>> I can assure the client its encrypted - default passphrase will suffice for
>> now.
>>
>> The directive (placed in /etc for the test) is straightforward:
>>
>> +aes: *
>
> It's been a little while since I configured an encryption setup. However,
> from memory once the password is set in the datazone, it holds true for all
> backup/recovery operations in the datazone. Try removing the passphrase and
> see whether that helps (or failing that, remove the passphrase and
> stop/restart NetWorker).
>
> The other option when running the manual backup is to run save -v; this
> should tell you what asm's it invokes.
>
> I could be wrong though ... it's been a couple of months.
Tim needs to include the appropriate passphrase on the recover command. You can
tell if a backup is using aes encryption because recovering it without the
correct passphrase will result in an empty file being recovered. See the man
page for the recover command for details.
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