Re: restoring encrypted backups: amrecover vs amrestore

2015-03-13 Thread Debra S Baddorf
I’m pretty sure I tested an amrecover (not a whole amrestore) with my setup, where the server does the encryption. And it worked, I mean. Or I wouldn’t have continued. I might only have tested an amrecover ON the server though, and not on the client. Mine are all connected, so I gue

Re: restoring encrypted backups: amrecover vs amrestore

2015-03-13 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
The idea behind client encryption is to treat each server/sysadmin as an independent operator and with encryption done by the client the contents of the tapes (or in our case, vtapes) wouldn't necessarily be accessible to the amanda server operator. Ultimately, server encryption gets us a litt

Re: restoring encrypted backups: amrecover vs amrestore

2015-03-13 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Since you’ve gotten no answers yet (I know very little):might this be related to whether the client or the server is the one doing the unpacking of the dump, and in turn, which one of those also did the encrypting? I do some encrypting on one small set of nodes, but the server does