5 1 0:Encryption Support Matrix

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	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Courier IMAP	N	N	N	Y	Y
Cyrus IMAP	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
DB2_UDB	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
Dovecot IMAP	N	N	N	Y	Y
ESX Server	N	Y	N	Y	Y
GroupWise	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Informix	N	N	N	Y	Y
Ingres	N	N	N	Y	Y
JIRA Note	N	N	N	Y	Y
KVM-QEMU	N	N	N	Y	Y
Kopano	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Linux BSR	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Lotus Notes	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
MaxDB	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
MySQL	N	Y	N	Y	Y
NSS File System	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
NetApp	N	N	N	Y	Y
OES Novell Directory	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
ORACLE	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
Open-Exchange Server	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
OpenLDAP	N	Y	N	Y	Y
OpenNebula	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Path	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
PostgreSQL	N	Y	N	Y	Y
RHV	N	Y	N	Y	Y
SAP ASE	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
SAP HANA	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
SAP NetWeaver	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
Scalix Note	N	N	N	Y	Y
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server	N	N	N	Y	Y
VMware vSphere	N	Y	N	Y	Y
Zarafa	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
eDirectory	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
iFolder	Y	Y	N	Y	Y

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	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
DB2_UDB	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
Exchange Server	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Exchange Server 2003	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Exchange Server DAG	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Hyper-V	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Informix	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
Lotus Notes	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
MS SQL Server	N	Y	N	Y	Y
MaxDB	N	N	N	Y	Y
MySQL	N	Y	N	Y	Y
ORACLE	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Path	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
SAP ASE	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
SAP HANA	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
SAP NetWeaver	N	N	Backup API function	Y	Y
SharePoint Server	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
System State	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
VMware vSphere	N	Y	N	Y	Y

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	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
NSS File System	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
eDirectory	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
iFolder	Y	Y	N	Y	Y

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	N	N	N	Y	Y
NetApp	N	N	N	Y	Y

See also

Backup-task Encryption – LTO Encryption – Encrypting Si3 NG Deduplication Store

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