5 1 0:Encryption Support Matrix

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Overview


SEP sesam provides data encryption types on different levels: backup-task encryption defined on the backup task level, Si3 encryption for Si3 deduplication store defined on the data store level, and hardware-based LTO encryption for LTO tape drives (generation 4 and higher), which is defined on a media pool level.

If you want to encrypt your backups in SEP sesam on task level, configure the data encryption when creating a backup task. Supported encryption algorithms are the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption and the Blowfish encryption. The following encryption matrix shows supported encryption types according to the operating system and task type.

In some cases SEP sesam integrates other system's native backup tool, such as RMAN – a complete backup and recovery system for Oracle – where SEP sesam acts as the media management utility and triggers the backup, but it is the system's backup utility that actually drives the database backups. In such cases, where the backups are done externally by some other utility, SEP sesam built-in encryption on the backup task level is not possible. It is replaced by external encyption, done outside SEP sesam. Thus SEP sesam built-in encryption and external encryption are mutually exclusive encryption methods and only one of them is supported.

Linux/Unix Windows NetWare Network filer

Linux/Unix

Task type SEP sesam task-defined encryption External encryption SEP sesam Si3 encryption SEP sesam LTO encryption
Blowfish (bf64) AES 256-bit (aes256)
Citrix XenServer YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Courier IMAP NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
Cyrus IMAP YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
DB2_UDB NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
Dovecot IMAP NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
ESX Server NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
GroupWise YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Informix NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
Ingres NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
JIRA Note NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
KVM-QEMU NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
Kopano YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Linux BSR YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Lotus Notes YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
MaxDB NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
MySQL NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
NSS File System YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
NetApp NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
OES Novell Directory NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
ORACLE NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
Open-Exchange Server YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
OpenLDAP NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
OpenNebula YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Path YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
PostgreSQL NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
RHV NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
SAP ASE NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
SAP HANA NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
SAP NetWeaver NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
Scalix Note NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
VMware vSphere NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
Zarafa YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
eDirectory YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
iFolder YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Note

SEP AG has discontinued support for Scalix as of SEP sesam 4.4.3 Tigon V2 and for JIRA as of 4.4.3 Beefalo.

Windows

Task type SEP sesam task-defined encryption External encryption SEP sesam Si3 encryption SEP sesam LTO encryption
Blowfish (bf64) AES 256-bit (aes256)
Bare System Recovery YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
DB2_UDB NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
Exchange Server YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Exchange Server 2003 YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Exchange Server DAG YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Hyper-V YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Informix NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
Lotus Notes YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
MS SQL Server NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
MaxDB NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
MySQL NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY
ORACLE YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
Path YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
SAP ASE NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
SAP HANA NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
SAP NetWeaver NoN NoN Backup API function YesY YesY
SharePoint Server YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
System State YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
VMware vSphere NoN YesY NoN YesY YesY

NetWare

Task type SEP sesam task-defined encryption External encryption SEP sesam Si3 encryption SEP sesam LTO encryption
Blowfish (bf64) AES 256-bit (aes256)
GroupWise YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
NSS File System YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
eDirectory YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY
iFolder YesY YesY NoN YesY YesY

Network filer

Task type SEP sesam task-defined encryption External encryption SEP sesam Si3 encryption SEP sesam LTO encryption
Blowfish (bf64) AES 256-bit (aes256)
NDMP NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY
NetApp NoN NoN NoN YesY YesY


See also

Backup-task EncryptionLTO EncryptionEncrypting Si3 NG Deduplication Store

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