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September 15th, 2006 09:00
Compress and encrypt the same data
Does anyone know if it's possible to apply both compression and encryption to the same data, using the latest version of NetWorker?
I want to perform a backup to disk, and there is no hardware compression available, so I really want to compress the data to save on disk space. However, the local security rules also insist on encryption.
The admin guide says that "Both compression and password-protection cannot be selected", but I don't know if this also applies to encryption with the AES ASM.
Unfortunately, I don't have a set-up to experiment with currently.
I want to perform a backup to disk, and there is no hardware compression available, so I really want to compress the data to save on disk space. However, the local security rules also insist on encryption.
The admin guide says that "Both compression and password-protection cannot be selected", but I don't know if this also applies to encryption with the AES ASM.
Unfortunately, I don't have a set-up to experiment with currently.
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gavinraine
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September 15th, 2006 09:00
I this case the data is going to stay on disk indefinitely, so I want to crunch it as much as possible, otherwise my disk storage costs will get pretty high. It will also compress very well, as most of it is Oracle data.
The disk vendor can do an in-line encryption device, but that costs, so I was really hoping for a software solution....
ble1
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September 15th, 2006 09:00
I assume you then have encryption in place for other data - what method do you use? While compression to disk makes sense (even it brings higher CPU rate and it doesn't make sense if you are using HW compression after on drives) with encryption you are better with some specialized product.
As for question itself, AFAIK it is not possible.
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September 15th, 2006 10:00
If you do math you will see that you can get lower tier disk license and by the cost you won't spend on bigger license pay such disk solution (smaller version).
However, if you plan to keep data on disk indefinitely (I must warn you that would be equal to archive and disk is not compliant archive media) I guess you would have big disk in that case. Nevertheless, such solution would still be good one. As for encryption, I'm hardware based solution fan...