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Stuart_Hagan
Level 2
9 years ago

Netbackup Appliance Encryption

Hi all, Our 5230 appliance currently does not encrypt data on the disk.  If i select the option from the Web console to start encrypting am I right in saying the only the new data backed up will b...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    9 years ago
    No, please do not enable encryption in the policy. This will increase size of backups as encrypted data cannot be deduped. You can enable encryption in contentrouter.cfg or in pd.conf file which will encrypt data after dedupe. See this TN for details : http://www.veritas.com/docs/000072862
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Marianne
Level 6
9 years ago
No, please do not enable encryption in the policy. This will increase size of backups as encrypted data cannot be deduped. You can enable encryption in contentrouter.cfg or in pd.conf file which will encrypt data after dedupe. See this TN for details : http://www.veritas.com/docs/000072862