Can the drive where the disk backups sit be encrypted by bitlocker?

[arun0700]

Hi All,

Can the drive where the disk backups sit be encrypted by bitlocker? Would this affect the backups or duplications in anyway?

Thanks

Arun

[davidmoline]

Hi @arun0700 

No reason why not - this would all be transparent to NetBackup. 

Performance may be reduced due to the encryption requirements (refer to Microsoft documentation for details - they quote single digit performance hit).

It would have no affect on the deduplication rates (again, Bitlocker is transparent to NetBackup). 

Cheers
David

[arun0700]

Hi @davidmoline 

Thank you very much for replying to my query. I will check and MS documentation and i will make my decision based on it.

Thanks,

Arun