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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Section III. Encryption of data at rest
  4. NetBackup key management service
  5. Command line interface (CLI) commands
  6. Create a new key group
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Create a new key group

To create a new key group, use the NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS) utility command (the nbkmsutil command) with the included arguments.

# nbkmsutil -help -createkg
nbkmsutil -createkg -kgname <key_group_name>
[ -cipher <type> ]
[ -desc <description> ]

Note:

The default Cipher is AES_256.

-kgname

Specifies the name of the new key group (it has to be unique within the keystore).

-cipher

Specifies the type of cipher that is supported by this key group.

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