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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.13.0.0 Administrator Guide for DM5500

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Enable backup and restore encryption

You can ensure that the backup and restore content is encrypted when read on the source system, transmitted in encrypted form, and then decrypted before it is saved on the destination storage.

Prerequisites

Review the information in Backup and restore encryption to learn more about backup and restore encryption.

The encryption settings determine if the data transfer is encrypted while in-flight during backup and restore operations.

  • For File System, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) workloads, backup and restore encryption is only supported for Application Direct hosts. For Microsoft SQL Server, backup and restore encryption is supported for Application Direct and VM Direct hosts.
  • When a new host is added to PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance, host configuration is run to push the encryption settings to the host.
  • Only hosts that have the same version of PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance application agents installed support the host configuration.

About this task

Steps

  1. From the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI, click Settings icon, and then select Security.
    The Security dialog box appears.
  2. Click the Backup/Restore Encryption switch so it is enabled, and then click Save.

Next steps

The Jobs > System Job window of the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI creates a job to enable protection encryption. This job pushes encryption settings to the hosts to be used for self-service operations. Within the system job, a host configuration job is created for each host. If an error occurs, you can retry the system job or individual host configuration job.

NOTE: For centralized backup and restore operations, PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance sends the encryption settings to the application agents on the Application Direct hosts and network-attached storage (NAS).

You can disable encryption for backup and restore content by clicking the Backup/Restore Encryption switch. PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance creates a system job in the Jobs > System Job window to disable protection encryption.

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