On 04/04/2012 10:14, Vlad Khorsun wrote: >> Getting half-crypted DB copy is something too exotic :-) > Physical backup is "physical backup", i.e. page-level copy of a > database. It have > nothing common with encryption state, and i see no problem if physical backup > of > half-encrypted database is also half-encrypted. For the paranoid admins we > can make > option in nbackup to encrypt pages before writting them into backup (of > course file > system copy will be half-encrypted, but admins are informed and have a > choice). > > I see no reason to disallow backup's while encryption is in progress. > > And what about the contrary?
If database is in backup-mode and you start encryption, original database will be maintained unencrypted and it will be rewritten encrypted in the delta file? Then whole delta file will be rewritten to the database when backup ends? Sounds not wise. Adriano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
