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Brits
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10 years ago

Encryption in Netbackup and dedupe ratio

hi Team,  If I enable encryption option within policy, does it impact the de-dupe ratio of the data which gets backed up on MSDP pool? if yes , which encryption I should choose to aviod de-dupe ra...
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    RiaanBadenhorst
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Yes it does impact it severly. See the note, you can configure MSDP encryption.

     

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO89126

     

    This would provide encryption at rest though, the data would be unencrypted when it goes over the wire.

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RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
10 years ago

Hi,

 

Yes it does impact it severly. See the note, you can configure MSDP encryption.

 

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO89126

 

This would provide encryption at rest though, the data would be unencrypted when it goes over the wire.