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
- 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 master 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 master server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows master 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 master 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 master 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
- FIPS compliance in NetBackup
- NetBackup web services account
- Running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
- Backup anomaly detection
- Malware detection
- NetBackup Web UI Malware scanning workflow configuration
Modify the DTE mode on a backup image
The data-in-transit (DTE) feature of NetBackup introduces an additional image attribute (DTE mode) when a backup image is created.
Primarily, the global DTE mode and the client DTE mode decide whether the data-in-transit encryption takes place or not for a NetBackup operation. If the data is encrypted during backup, the DTE mode attribute of the associated NetBackup image is set to On.
If based on the global DTE mode and the client DTE mode, the data cannot be encrypted during backup, the DTE mode attribute of the image is set to Off.
The image DTE mode should be honored and retained for all subsequent operations on that image. For example, restore and secondary operations like duplication, replication, import and so on. If the image DTE mode is set to On, subsequent operations always encrypt the data for DTE supported hosts.
If the host does not support DTE, then the job fails. If the image DTE mode is set to Off, the DTE for subsequent operations is decided based on the global and client DTE modes at that point of time. This is the default behavior.
In certain cases, you may want to modify the image DTE mode that was set at the time of its creation.
To modify the image DTE mode
- Run the following command:
bpimage -update -image_dtemode Off|On
You can also change the image DTE mode using the NetBackup Web UI > Catalog node.
See DTE_IGNORE_IMAGE_MODE for NetBackup servers.
See View the DTE-specific attributes of a NetBackup image and an image copy.