Hello, Thanks for the Feature request. I think someone suggested this before, but didn't actually submit a Feature request.
I have added your feature request to the projects file, and would like to thank you care you took in preparing it, particularly for giving the detail you did -- including links to MSDN, and for getting the formatting (spacing, ...) correct. That certainly simplifies my task and facilitates getting it into the projects file. I think this is an important feature, and it merits some priority ... Best regards, Kern On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:59:51 Alex Ehrlich wrote: > Item X: Add EFS support on Windows > Origin: Alex Ehrlich (Alex.Ehrlich-at-mail.ee) > Date: 05 August 2008 > Status: > > What: For each file backed up or restored by FD on Windows, check if > the file is encrypted; if so then use OpenEncryptedFileRaw, > ReadEncryptedFileRaw, WriteEncryptedFileRaw, > CloseEncryptedFileRaw instead of BackupRead and BackupWrite > API calls. > > Why: Many laptop users utilize the EFS functionality today; so do. > some non-laptop ones, too. > Currently files encrypted by means of EFS cannot be backed up. > It means a Windows boutique cannot rely on Bacula as its > backup solution, at least when using Windows 2K, XPP, > "better" Vista etc on workstations, unless EFS is > forbidden by policies. > The current situation might result into "false sense of > security" among the end-users. > > Notes: Using xxxEncryptedFileRaw API would allow to backup and > restore EFS-encrypted files without decrypting their data. > Note that such files cannot be restored "portably" (at least, > easily) but they would be restoreable to a different (or > reinstalled) Win32 machine; the restore would require setup > of a EFS recovery agent in advance, of course, and this shall > be clearly reflected in the documentation, but this is the > normal Windows SysAdmin's business. > When "portable" backup is requested the EFS-encrypted files > shall be clearly reported as errors. > See MSDN on the "Backup and Restore of Encrypted Files" topic: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx > Maybe the EFS support requires a new flag in the database for > each file, too? > Unfortunately, the implementation is not as straightforward as > 1-to-1 replacement of BackupRead with ReadEncryptedFileRaw, > requiring some FD code rewrite to work with > encrypted-file-related callback functions. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere > in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
