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?
> Any plans for it?
> 
> 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, and that an attacker could gain access to the filenames
> stored within the backup?
> 
> -- John

To avoid the leak, you always could run your database server over an encrypted 
partition
+ running communication between dir,sd,fd over TLS.
+ (often forget) use an encrypted backup dump of the database.

These should protect you quiet reasonable.

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