Prime Infrastructure 2.0 Backup Encryption

[rick505d3]

Hi,

CLI backup of CPI 2.0 generated the following log:

# backup cpi-backup repository RepoTemp application NCS
% Creating backup with timestamped filename: cpi-backup-141209-1222.tar.gpg
  Backup Started at : 12/09/14 12:22:52
  Stage 1 of 7: Database backup ...
  Database size: 56G
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:33:13
  Stage 2 of 7: Database copy ...
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:33:13
  Stage 3 of 7: Backing up support files ...
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:33:16
  Stage 4 of 7: Compressing Backup ...
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:33:21
  Stage 5 of 7: Building backup file ...
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:38:20
  Stage 6 of 7: Encrypting backup file ...
  -- completed at  12/09/14 12:40:02
  Stage 7 of 7: Transferring backup file ...
  -- completed at 12/09/14 12:41:49
  Total Backup duration is: 0h:18m:57s

Step 6 is encrypting the backup file but it didn't asked for any key. Is there a key/password required to restore this backup later to a newly built CPI 2.0 system ?

Thanks,

Rick.

[Derek Clothier · Accepted solution]

Hi Rick,

    The restore of the backup onto a newly built CPI 2.0 system will work OK. The key/password for the encryption is stored in a file on the PI system and doesn't change when you do a new install.

Derek

[AFROJ AHMAD · Accepted solution]

Hi Rick,

This the way the backup is done by the Prime infrastructure , there will not be any password required when you do the restore of this backup.

Encryption was done without user configurable password.stored in somefile

check the below link and attached screen shot:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/1-2/user/guide/prime_infra_ug/ManageData.html#pgfId-1056993

Thanks-

Afroz

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