Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Jason A. Kates
It's not just turn on encryption then start Bacula its slightly more complicated. It may be just running an external script with parameters before telling mtx to load the next tape. The encryption will need at the volume level, the key management will also need to be dealt with possibly with an

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It seems to me that this is something that should be handled externally to Bacula. Bacula does not issue any SCSI commands directly (indirectly via mtx) and that is not something we are planning. I think there are sufficient features already in Bacula to permit one to turn on/off encry

[Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Jason A. Kates
Kern, I have this feature request: What: To provide a way for the storage daemon to enable hardware encryption on tape drives that support encryption. Why: Hardware encryption should not effect the backup speed and will still allow hardware compression of the data being backed up. LT04 and

Re: [Bacula-devel] Windows 2008 64-bit and VSS

2009-02-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:17:12PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2009 13:15:45 Sami Haahtinen wrote: > > I did some research and discovered that the VSS support for 64-bit > > Windows 2008 Server is known to be broken. And what I can gather the > > reason is that there is a lack

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
I have added this to the projects list. Best regards, Kern On Monday 28 April 2008 11:43:36 Tobias Barth wrote: > Hi, > > after nearly 3 years of writing nothing here, I am back - with a feature > request :) > I recently upgraded from bacula 1.36 to 2.2.8 in order to use the job > spooling feat

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Data encryption (formal version)

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 10:04:55 Tobias Barth wrote: > Hi, > > I yesterday mailed an informal feature request. Here is the formal > version of it: > > > Feature Request Form > > Item n: Data encryption on storage daemon > Origin: Tobias Barth > Date: 04 February 2009 > Status

Re: [Bacula-devel] Automatic Volume Deletion (disk volumes) feature request

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 07 July 2008 15:32:42 Antony wrote: > Hi! > I've googled for the automatic volume deletion and found this > http://www.bacula.org/fr/?page=projects (Item 11,Deletion of Disk-Based > Bacula Volumes). Although there is a notice about "Volume Data Retention" > and "Remove Volume After" optio

Re: [Bacula-devel] feature request: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have added this Feature Request to the projects list for the next vote -- probably a month or two from now. Best regards, Kern On Friday 12 December 2008 10:47:42 Ralf Gross wrote: > Item 1: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer > device Origin: Ralf Gross ralf

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Data encryption

2009-02-04 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello, And why not use an encrypted filesystem to store your media ? One major advantage, it's already there and can be functionnal in 30mins, an other advantage, is that a simple "cp" permit to crypt old backups. Bye Le Tuesday 03 February 2009 16:33:21 Tobias Barth, vous avez écrit : > Hi, >

[Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Data encryption (formal version)

2009-02-04 Thread Tobias Barth
Hi, I yesterday mailed an informal feature request. Here is the formal version of it: Feature Request Form Item n: Data encryption on storage daemon Origin: Tobias Barth Date: 04 February 2009 Status: new What: The storage demon should be able to do the data encryption tha