Data Encryption

Data security is an important part of the backup strategy. You must protect your information from unauthorized access, especially if you back up sensitive data to remote locations. To keep your data safe, you can use data encryption.

Data encryption transforms data to an unreadable, scrambled format with the help of a cryptographic algorithm and a secret key. If encrypted data is intercepted, it cannot be unlocked and read by the eavesdropper. Only intended recipients who know the secret key can reverse encrypted information back to a readable format.

In Veeam Agent, encryption works at the backup job level. Veeam Agent uses the block cipher encryption algorithm and stores data in the encrypted format to a backup file.

Encryption is performed on the trusted side depending on the backup target:

• Encryption is performed on the source side for all backup targets except the Veeam backup repository.
• Encryption is performed on the target side if you store backups in the Veeam backup repository.

Decryption is performed on the same side as encryption.

To create encrypted backups, you must enable the encryption option and specify a password that will be used for data encryption. To learn more, see Data Encryption Settings.

In This Section

• Encryption Algorithms
• Backup Job Encryption
• Encryption Best Practices

Related Tasks

• Creating Backup Jobs
• Restoring Data from Encrypted Backups