I am going to have to start password protecting (and probably, encrypting) 
my Networker scheduled backups. I am going through the Admin Guide, and am 
unclear on a couple points:

(this is for all Windows clients)

I want to apply the password and/or encryption to all my scheduled jobs. I 
realize that this means I need to add lines to my directives. I do use 
global directives (to skip certain file types, etc). But I am unclear 
where I save the password. I do want it as a global directive (i.e., not 
have to touch any clients). And I guess I am not groking how to do that, 
from the examples - where the password is entered, is the password file 
itself encrypted, etc.

Also, suppose I need to do a restore to a different NetWorker server (my 
current one melts down, and I need to re-create a new one from scratch). 
How do I verify that the backup sets can be decrypted? I also many times 
have to do a recover to a different NW server, at one of my remote sites 
(my remote sites all run NW Business Edition, instead of the Network 
Edition I run here at the data center). If I do a recover of a password 
protected / encrypted backup set to a completely different NW server, what 
would I have to do to ensure that the backup set can be recovered and 
properly opened/used/etc?

I'm guessing that I need to use the same password at all my sites, but 
what of the decrypting?

Thanks for any clues ...

-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>

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