Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-11 Thread Mathew Brown
Thanks a lot for your feedback Kern and Ryan. I guess I'll just either use the latest version and not use encryption (since I'm deploying it in a production env. or see if we can wait till mid-Dec. before deploying). Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 16:43, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
I can't speak for this upgrade, but upgrading from 1.36.x to 1.38.x was relatively painless. Seeing as how the release and your target deployment dates are so close (and it will definitely matter how many hosts you have, since you'd need to upgrade them all -- a few is no big deal, and even

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 10 November 2006 16:43, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:58, Mathew Brown wrote: Hi, I'd read several times that the FD encryption feature was not yet stable but this was several months ago. Would you now consider it stable

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:58, Mathew Brown wrote: Hi, I'd read several times that the FD encryption feature was not yet stable but this was several months ago. Would you now consider it stable enough for use in production environments? Thanks for your help. It is ready

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-01 Thread Mathew Brown
Thanks for your reply Dan. By next release, are you referring to 1.4.x? Also, is on-disk data format going to be changed in 1.4.x? According to http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula/Configuring_Bacula_Encryption.20060305184424.26351.sandbox.html, he provides the following warning when using

[Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-10-31 Thread Mathew Brown
Hi, I'd read several times that the FD encryption feature was not yet stable but this was several months ago. Would you now consider it stable enough for use in production environments? Thanks for your help. -- Mathew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-10-31 Thread Russell Sutherland
I do not know if this idea has been mentioned before, or whether it has any merit, but for backups done to disk, one could first install an encrypted file system such as gbde and geli for FreeBSD. It seems like another case of flexibility and functionality through modularity. On 31/10/06, Dan