Default Encryption Password
Overview
In this page, you can enable or disable the default encrytion password for the backup schedules. Once you configure default encryption password, you can choose this encryption type while creating new backup schedules. By this way, you need not to remember the encryption password for all the backup schedules.
How to get here in the Web Console?
 In the top menu, select: "Settings -> Advanced Options" menu and select "Default Encryption Password" tab.
Default Encryption Password
In a client machine, you may need to create multiple backup schedules to categorize your backup data. For this, it may be difficult to configure the same encryption details for all the backup schedules and it will be also difficult to remember all the backup schedules encryption password. In this case, you can enable Default Encryption Password option and choose the desired encryption algorithm and the encryption key size. Once configure, when configuring a new backup schedule (for both file/folder or plugin backup schedules), Default Encryption Password option also be listed in Edit option of "Encryption" section. By choosing this option, the configured default encryption algorithm and encryption bit size will be shown.
Also, if the Default Encryption Password option was not yet configured, you can also configure it by choosing that option when creating a new backup schedule. The configured Default Encryption Password setting will come effective immediately.
If you want to control client's backup schedules from backup server itself using Centralized Client Management feature, then this Default Encryption Password option should be enabled at the client side. Adding new backup schedule for a client through Centralized Client Management feature, the client should have been enabled with Defaul Encryption Password feature. The password encryption value for the backup schedules created from backup server (through Centralized Client Management feature) will be taken from the client's Default Encryption Password setting. Otherwise, those backup configurations won't be applied to the client system. Because, the client may be concerned about his data, which can be pulled from the client system by configuring a backup schedule for him in the backup server. By encrypting the backup data using the client configured backup password, the backed up data cannot be restored at the backup server side.
NOTE: We recommend to configure the Default Encryption Password setting only once. It is not advisable to change this Default Encryption Password option frequently. The reason is, by changing the Default Encryption Password value, it will be effective only for the backup schedules created there after. The backup schedules created with the previous Default Encryption Password details, still has the older encryption password for the configured backup data.
Encryption Technique - supports encryption using Blow fish or Triple DES. The Blow fish is a commonly used open source encryption technique which provides encryption based on the size of the encryption key length (from 64 bits to 448 bits). Higher the number of bits stronger is the encryption. Triple DES is a block cipher formed from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher by using it three times, this technique is also supported by for encrypting the backup data. By default, Triple DES encryption technique is chosen.
Encryption Key Size - supports encryption using variable length (64 to 448 bits for Blow fish and 192 bits for Triple DES) keys. The key is generated using the password you provide. Basically the longer the key size you give the more difficult it is for someone to decrypt the encrypted files. For normal backup purposes the default 64 bit encryption should be good enough.
Type Password - Provide a password here to generate the encryption key. If the password is forgotten the data can never be recovered as the data cannot be decrypted without this password. So, please ensure that you keep your password in a safe place.
Once a backup schedule is configured with "Default Encryption Password" encryption type, that backup schedule's encryption password details won't be changed by changing the Default Encryption Password settings or disabling the Default Encryption Password option in the client. Similar to custom encryption option, you need to configure Default Encryption Password prior to schedule/restore the backup data, after recovering the backup schedule using Client Disaster Recovery feature.
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