topic Re: Encrypting backups in Operating System - HP-UX

Encrypting backups

Mark A. Smith — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:38:33 GMT

Does anybody know if backups can be encrypted using ftio or maybe even Data Protector V5.0 ?

Re: Encrypting backups

Pupil_1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:45:02 GMT

Not sure if it's useful to you.

Netapp has Decru which does backup encryption.

http://www.netapp.com/solutions/decru.html

Re: Encrypting backups

Pete Randall — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:54:44 GMT

Mark,

Not sure specifically about 5.0, but DP does offer encryption capabilities:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1039123

Pete

Re: Encrypting backups

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:55:29 GMT

Mark, Data protector does encryption,

Take a look at this old thread,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1039123&admit=-682735245+1158242052620+28353475

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: Encrypting backups

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:01:56 GMT

Mark,

Check this article.

http://www.csoonline.com/analyst/report3945.html

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Encrypting backups

Murat SULUHAN — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:07:19 GMT

Hi Mark

DP provides basic encryption mechanism.
In backup window, open your backup session properties,
click options tab
then click filesystem options, it will open a dialog box,
then click "Other" in the dialog box,

You will see encode option.

Option: Encode
Data Protector lets you encode filesystem and disk image data to prevent others from accessing this data while it is being transferred over the network. Data is encoded before it is transferred over the network and before it is written to media. By default, the encode option is set to OFF.

Data Protector offers a simple built-in XOR algorithm implemented in a shared C program library. Since Data Protector provides the API used by the Disk Agent to interface with the data encoding module, you can substitute your own internal data encoding algorithms for greater security. Do this by writing your own data encoding module, compiling it into a library, and substituting the new library for the default Data Protector library.

I hope it helps you

Best Regards.