In terms of disaster recovery, if I lost my bacula server along with the catalog (or the catalog is backed up but encrypted on a tape) can I still restore from an encrypted tape? From your reply I know that I need bacula installed to read the encrypted data, but (other then the keys) what else do I need to recover the encrypted data from the tape?
I remember reading some where in the docs that if the job is no longer in the catalog then I will need to use bscan to determine what's on the tape and to restore from it (which is why I referenced btape, ect, in my last E-mail). Can I still do this with encrypted tapes or have I misunderstood the process? Thanks, Deric On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:27 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:30, Deric Abel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am about to implement data encryption on my backup tapes using the > > Bacula 1.39.18, and I just had one question dealing with restoring that > > encrypted data. > > > > If I were to lose my backup server (but not losing the encryption keys) > > because of some disaster, would I have to have all of bacula > > installed/setup completely or will one of the command line progames > > (i.e. btape) work to pull the encrypted data off of the tapes? > > None of the command line tools support encryption. In addition, I recently > learned that they do not support access control lists either. > > The only reason that most of the command line tools are there is because 3 or > 4 years ago, most people wouldn't accept a program very easily that writes > the backup data in its own "non-Unix" format -- so I wrote those tools sort > of like a security blinket, and I really would like to do away with bextract > or rewrite it to use nothing but core routines. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
