Re: [Veritas-bu] Encryption and compression
2009-05-22 10:19:32
Hi Travis
Are you sure about the fact that NBU will automatically compress before
encryption without being told? Could be useful :)
James
Travis Kelley wrote:
> Yoiu are correct that encrypted data is not compressible. Netbackups
> client based encrytion knows this and will apply compression first
> then encryption. If you use client based encryption, then client
> based compression is your onlu option. Hardware compression on your
> tape drives will be effectively worthless.
>
> On 5/22/09, James Pattinson <jamesp AT hisser DOT org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Does anyone know if NetBackup's client encryption option compresses the
>> data before it's encrypted?
>>
>> If not am I right in assuming that this data won't be compressible even
>> by hardware compression afterwards :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> James
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