NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Read this first for secure communications in NetBackup
- Communication failure scenarios
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- About audit events
- Section I. Identity and access management
- About identity and access management
- AD and LDAP domains
- Access keys
- API keys
- Auth.conf file
- Role-based access control
- Default RBAC roles
- Smart card or digital certificate
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Enhanced Auditing
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the primary and media server
- Access Control host properties dialog for the client
- Troubleshooting Access Management
- Windows verification points
- UNIX verification points
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a UNIX primary server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows primary server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Section II. Encryption of data-in-transit
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- About the Security Management utilities
- About host management
- Adding shared or cluster mappings
- Allowing or disallowing automatic certificate reissue
- About global security settings
- About host name-based certificates
- About host ID-based certificates
- Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Setting up trust with the primary server (Certificate Authority)
- About reissuing host ID-based certificates
- About Token Management for host ID-based certificates
- About the host ID-based certificate revocation list
- About revoking host ID-based certificates
- Host ID-based certificate deployment in a clustered setup
- About deployment of a host ID-based certificate on a clustered NetBackup host
- Migrating NetBackup CA
- Configuring data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
- Configure the DTE mode on a client
- Modify the DTE mode on a backup image
- How DTE configuration settings work in various NetBackup operations
- External CA and external certificates
- About external CA support in NetBackup
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- About certificate enrollment
- Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- About external certificate configuration for a clustered primary server
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- Section III. Encryption of data at rest
- Data at rest encryption security
- About NetBackup client encryption
- Configuring standard encryption on clients
- About configuring standard encryption from the server
- Configuring legacy encryption on clients
- About configuring legacy encryption from the client
- About configuring legacy encryption from the server
- Additional legacy key file security for UNIX clients
- NetBackup key management service
- About FIPS enabled KMS
- Installing KMS
- Configuring KMS
- About key groups and key records
- Overview of key record states
- Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
- About using KMS for encryption
- KMS database constituents
- Command line interface (CLI) commands
- About exporting and importing keys from the KMS database
- Troubleshooting KMS
- External key management service
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Working with multiple KMS servers
- Data at rest encryption security
- Ciphers used in NetBackup for secure communication
- FIPS compliance in NetBackup
- Disable FIPS mode for NetBackup
- NetBackup web services account
- Running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account
- Running NetBackup commands with non-privileged user account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
- Backup anomaly detection
- Section IV. Malware scanning
Synthetic backup
A synthetic backup can be a synthetic full or a synthetic cumulative backup. The images that are used to create the synthetic image are known as component images. For instance, the component images in a synthetic full backup are the previous full image and the subsequent incremental images. A typical NetBackup backup process accesses the client to create a backup. A synthetic backup is a backup image created without using the client. Instead, a synthetic backup process creates a full or a cumulative incremental image by using previously created backup images called component images. In the synthetic backup workflow, images are fetched from different source storage units, synthesized, and copied to a target storage unit.
The hosts that come into the picture are source media servers and target media server from the same domain.
Table: DTE mode is OFF in the image
Global DTE mode | All NetBackup media server 9.1 and later with DTE mode | Any NetBackup media server earlier than 9.1 | |
---|---|---|---|
On | Off | ||
Preferred Off | Data is not encrypted | Data is not encrypted | Data is not encrypted |
Preferred On | Data is encrypted | Data is not encrypted | Data is not encrypted |
Enforced | Data is encrypted | Operation fails | Operation fails |
Table: When DTE mode is On for any one of the images and media server DTE setting is On
Global DTE mode | Host | Value of the DTE_IGNORE_IMAGE_MODE configuration option | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
NEVER (default) | WHERE_UNSUPPORTED | ALWAYS | ||
Preferred Off | All NetBackup media server 9.1 or later | Data is encrypted | Data is encrypted | Data is not encrypted |
Any NetBackup media server earlier than 9.1 | Operation fails | Data is not encrypted | Data is not encrypted | |
Preferred On | All NetBackup media server 9.1 or later | Data is encrypted | Data is encrypted | Data is encrypted |
Any NetBackup media server earlier than 9.1 | Operation fails | Data is not encrypted | Data is not encrypted | |
Enforced | All NetBackup media server 9.1 or later | Data is encrypted | Data is encrypted | Data is encrypted |
Any NetBackup media server earlier than 9.1 | Operation fails | Operation fails | Operation fails |
Note:
If DTE_IGNORE_IMAGE_MODE is set to ALWAYS, the DTE decision is as per the table - Table: DTE mode is OFF in the image.
Table: When the image DTE mode is On and the media server DTE setting on 10.0 or later is Off
Global DTE mode | Value of the DTE_IGNORE_IMAGE_MODE configuration option | ||
---|---|---|---|
NEVER (default) | WHERE_UNSUPPORTED | ALWAYS | |
Preferred Off | Operation fails | Operation fails | Data is not encrypted |
Preferred On | Operation fails | Operation fails | Data is not encrypted |
Enforced | Operation fails | Operation fails | Operation fails |
Note:
If DTE_IGNORE_IMAGE_MODE is set to ALWAYS, the DTE decision is as per the table - Table: DTE mode is OFF in the image.
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