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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide
  3. Configuring AdvancedDisk
  4. About data encryption for AdvancedDisk storage
Veritas NetBackup™ AdvancedDisk Storage Solutions Guide

About data encryption for AdvancedDisk storage

You can encrypt your data on the storage that you use for AdvancedDisk. The following are the requirements to configure encryption:

  • You must configure the NetBackup Key Management Service so that NetBackup can manage the encryption keys. NetBackup uses KMS to manage encryption keys. You must use NetBackup commands to configure both the Key Management Service and the AdvancedDisk storage server.

    See About key management for encryption of NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage.

  • You must use the nbdevconfig command to configure the storage servers and the disk pools.

  • You must use the AdvancedDisk_crypt type when you configure the storage servers and the disk pools.

After you configure KMS and AdvancedDisk_crypt storage servers and disk pools, NetBackup uses encryption for backup jobs to those disk pools.

Note:

NetBackup does not span volumes for the AdvancedDisk_crypt type of disk pool.

See About AdvancedDisk disk pools.

AdvancedDisk encryption is supported on a subset of operating systems that NetBackup supports. For supported systems, see the NetBackup compatibility lists on the NetBackup support landing page.

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

More information about data-at-rest encryption and security is available.

See the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

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