Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations, Version 6.1.2

Encrypt backups radio button

Set encryption for remote backup copies.

The encryption feature provides extra security on your remote location. The encryptions feature can be useful if multiple people have access to the remote server location, and you need to ensure that each user's data is protected from other users, or anyone else who has access to the remote server.

When you click the button labeled Encrypt backups, Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations will present a dialog so you can create a password for the encrypted files. This password is required to view or access any files which are backed up by Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations. The encrypted password is kept in the Program data folder. If the files in the program data folder are lost, you will be prompted to enter a new password.

Once encryption has been enabled, the password is stored. If you disable encryption, then enable again, you are not prompted for a new password.

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations does not support prompted encryption. Hence, if you specify Tivoli Storage Manager server as your remote storage area, you must configure non-prompted encryption in the Tivoli Storage Manager dsm.opt options file. In the dsm.opt file, use the statement: encryptkey generate. See Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows® Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide for information about setting encryption options in Tivoli Storage Manager dsm.opt file. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations supports AES128 encryption but does not support AES56 encryption.

The dsm.opt file is in the Program data folder.

Files stored on the local storage area are not encrypted. Files that are compressed can not be encrypted, and the user interface does not allow you to configure both encryption and compression. Files that use sub-file copy can be encrypted.

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations can not protect backup copies that it has encrypted. This means that Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations cannot create encrypted backup copies, and then make backup copies (encrypted or not) of those backup copies.

If you configure Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations to encrypt the backup copies to a file server, you must not use Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations to protect the encrypted backup copies on that file server. You can use Tivoli Storage Manager or another backup solution to protect the encrypted backup copies on that file server.

You do not have to choose either encryption or compression. By clicking the buttons, you can clear both buttons, and select neither encryption or compression.