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kjstech
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Quick encryption question

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We were asked by auditors if our Veeam backups are encrypted. I really didn't know. So I was poking around and found in the jobs advanced settings under Storage there is a checkbox for "Enable backup file encryption" along with a credentials drop down and an add button to create a new credential.

If I simply click this box, hit add and create a new long / strong password, will the job be encrypted on next run? Or will it continue as usual and then do a full backup on the weekend? What happens to the existing backup copy jobs?

Jobs are Incremental with create synthetic full backups on Saturday and keep 4 restore points on disk.
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If you enable it you will get a notice saying that the next backup will be an active full to enable encryption from that point on (creating a new chain). The old files will still be unencrypted.

For your backup copy jobs: enable encryption as well there so you have an encrypted offsite backup.
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[MERGED] Encryption Requirement

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Hi, we are thinking about enabling the encryption of our disk backups.

Will this involve doing a full backup subsequently and will this requirement possibly be removed in v9?

Many thanks
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Re: Quick encryption question

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Hi Neil, yes, full backup will be performed during the next job run (and this behavior will not change in v9).
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Re: Quick encryption question

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OK. Thanks for the quick response
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