>>>>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:23:10 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said:
> 
> Emery Guevremont wrote:
> > Michel Meyers wrote:
> > Emery Guevremont wrote:
> >  
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm in the middle of trying to bextract a file that's encrypted on a
> >>>> volume. Here's the command I ran:
> >>>>     
> > [...]
> >  
> >>>> I've got the pem file of the client copied on this machine, but I don't
> >>>> know how I'm supposed to get bextract to use it. Is it even possible to
> >>>> restore encrypted data with bextract? If not, what our my options if I
> >>>> don't have access to the catalog?
> >>>>     
> > 
> > - From the manual
> > (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Data_Encryption.html):
> > 
> > The implementation does not encrypt file metadata such as file path
> > names, permissions, and ownership. Extended attributes are also
> > currently not encrypted. However, Mac OS X resource forks are encrypted.
> > 
> > ---
> > Maybe you can use bscan to populate a 'dummy catalog' and then recover
> > your real catalog backup using that?
> >   
> >> I know I can use bscan, but I was hoping I can save a step and just use
> >> bextract. I thought I had seen on this list that bextract supports
> >> encrypted files, but I could be wrong.
> 
> I thought that I had seen that it does not, so it looks as if we've gone
> and cancelled each other out.
> 
> Anyone know for sure? :)

The source code knows and it says "no" :-(

The problem is that bextract is logically part of the SD, whereas all of the
crypto stuff resides in the FD at the moment.

__Martin

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