NetVault 13.1.2 - Built-in Plug-ins User Guide

Encrypting all backups

If encryption is enabled for all backups performed from a particular NetVault Client, there are no additional requirements for encrypting backups. For more information about the backup and restore procedures, see the user’s guide for the relevant plug-in.

Performing job-level encryption

The job-level encryption option can be used to encrypt the primary backup, secondary copy, or both. Encrypting both the primary backup and secondary copy is beneficial when security requirements dictate that the backup must be encrypted while it transfers across the network or while it is stored on a disk-based backup device even if the disk-based backup device is located within the corporate network.

The job-level encryption setting is specified in the Backup Advanced Options Set. For more information about creating an Advanced Options Set for a backup job, see the Quest NetVault Administrator’s Guide.

NetVault offers the following methods for creating Secondary Copies:

IMPORTANT:   • If the primary copy is encrypted, the Data Copy method automatically creates an encrypted saveset whether you select the Encrypt Secondary Copy Only check box or not. Therefore, this option is only useful when you want to create an encrypted secondary copy from an unencrypted primary copy. • Encrypted primary backups are not encrypted again if you select the Encrypt Secondary Copy Only check box for a Data Copy. • To restore data from an encrypted Data Copy, you must use the primary copy’s Encryption Key.

Troubleshooting

This section describes some common issues and their solutions. It includes the following topic:

Backups and Restores using AES-256 encryption algorithm are noticeably slower for NetVault Clients version 13.0.1 and 13.0.2 (Enabling non FIPS encryption algorithm on NetVault Clients version 13.0.1 and 13.0.2)

The built-in NetVault Plug-in for Encryption in NetVault 13.0.3 onward includes a FIPS compliant AES-256 option and a non FIPS compliant AES-256 option.

With NetVault 13.0 and earlier, the built-in NetVault Plug-in for Encryption uses an AES-256 encryption algorithm that is non FIPS compliant.

With NetVault 13.0.1, and NetVault 13.0.2 the NetVault Plug-in for Encryption uses an AES-256 encryption algorithm that is FIPS compliant. There is no non FIPS compliant AES-256 option. Backups and restores performed using AES-256 FIPS compliant algorithm are noticeably slower than backups and restores performed using the AES-256 non FIPS compliant encryption algorithm.

With NetVault 13.0.1 and NetVault 13.0.2, backups and restores are noticeably slower with the AES256 encryption option set. The built-in NetVault Plug-in for Encryption is set to use a FIPS compliant AES-256 algorithm.

If FIPS compliance is not a requirement for your backups, and you would prefer to use non FIPS compliant AES-256 algorithm in the benefit of backup speeds, then you can modify NetVault Plug-in for Encryption to use a non FIPS compliant AES-256 encryption algorithm. For each NetVault Client for which you want to use the non FIPS compliant AES-256 encryption algorithm, completethe following steps.

NOTE: Encryption is configured in the NetVault Clients. Apply the described settings for all the NetVault version 13.0.1 and NetVault version 13.0.2 Clients for which FIPS compliant backups is not a requirement, and you choose using a non FIPS compliant AES-256 encryption algorithm in the benefit of backup speeds.