Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula data encryption usable at all?

2012-10-09 07:55:30
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula data encryption usable at all?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: <lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:51:13 -0400
On 2012-10-09 06:12, lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de wrote:
> Hello
>
> when evaluating a new backup solution for our company we have focused
> at Bacula mostly because of some nice features like data spooling,
> broad client support and so on, but the "killer-feature" in our case
> was the data encryption with its straight forward design.

Thank you

> Unfortunately we now have spot some bugs like
> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1936 and
> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1940

To be fair, 1936 was opened 8 days ago, and contains a patch.  Give it 
time.

> and especially the won't fix
> comment for Bug#1940 sounds like "don't use data encryption".

No, the comment in 1940 is: use VSS.

> So in our case the question is if there are actually any
> "success-stories" for Bacula data encryption, or if we are beating a
> dead horse.

Yes, it is used by many on a regular basis from what I can tell.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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