Backup Job Encryption

Encryption for the backup job is configured in the advanced job settings. You should enable the encryption option and specify a password to protect data in backup files produced by the backup job.

The backup job processing with encryption enabled includes the following steps:

1. You enable encryption for a backup job and specify a password.
2. Veeam Agent generates the necessary keys to protect backup data.
3. Veeam Agent encrypts data blocks and stores them to the target location.
4. On the target storage, encrypted data blocks are stored to a resulting backup file.

Restore of an encrypted backup file includes the following steps:

1. You select an encrypted backup file and define a password to decrypt the backup file. If the password has changed once or several times, you need to specify the latest password that was used to encrypt files in the backup chain.
2. Veeam Agent uses the provided password to generate user key and unlock the subsequent keys for backup file decryption.
3. Veeam Agent retrieves data blocks from the backup file and decrypts them on the trusted side.