Windows operating systems

Setting up encryption

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This topic lists the steps that you must follow to set up encryption with the encryptkey option.

Procedure

  1. Specify encryptkey=save in the options file.
  2. Back up at least one file with asnode=ProxyNodeName to create a local encryption key on each agent node in the multiple node environment.

Results

Follow these steps to set up encryption with the encryptkey=prompt option:

  1. Specify encryptkey=prompt in the options file.
  2. Ensure that users of the agent nodes in the multiple node environment are using the same encryption key.

Important:

  • If you change the encryption key, you must repeat the previous steps.
  • Use the same encryption key for all files backed up in the shared node environment.