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goof1427
13 years ago

backing up an encrypted volume

thank you for your time.  I am in need of some help in regards to do a file level restore on an encrypted volume. We have a 3rd party app that encrypts the volume on the windows file server.  The volume resides on a NetApp.  we used NDMP to do a backup of the volume which was successful.  However doing a restore we were unable to do a file level restore...we could only see the volume that was backed up. And it was also compressed.  a 6TB volume compressed to about 3TB. Is there a way to see the files that were backed up to do a restore or will the whole volume need to be restored.  Or should we just go through straight windows for backups?  

7.1.x and Earlier
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  • Omar_Villa's avatar
    Omar_Villa
    13 years ago
    Because the encryption happens outside netbackup it doesnt have the encryption key to read the data, ndmp works because is a block level, i think u will need to restore the full system and later open it with the encryption key, at least the 3rd party vendor have a way of doing this.

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  • Will_Restore's avatar
    Will_Restore
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    NDMP directory structure can normally be traversed in NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore GUI

     

    Or should we just go through straight windows for backups?  

    My experience is that method is very slow vs. NDMP

  • Omar_Villa's avatar
    Omar_Villa
    Level 6
    13 years ago
    Because the encryption happens outside netbackup it doesnt have the encryption key to read the data, ndmp works because is a block level, i think u will need to restore the full system and later open it with the encryption key, at least the 3rd party vendor have a way of doing this.