John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Some quick questions about Bacula compression and encryption.
> 
> First off, is there any support for using bzip2 compression in Bacula?

This query says no:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.bacula.org+bzip2&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

> Any plans for it?

There are plugins coming.  They might work for this.

> Regarding encryption...  according to the docs, the FD performs the
> encryption.  However, the director surely would need access to at
> least the information about what files are stored so that it can
> update the catalog.  Does that mean that only the contents of files
> are encrypted,

Yes.  I believe this point is in the docs somewhere.

 > and that an attacker could gain access to the filenames
> stored within the backup?

Perhaps.  I think others will confirm/deny.

-- 
Dan Langille

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