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How Arcserve Backup Encrypts Data at the Agent Server

Data can be encrypted at the Arcserve Backup agent server (agent server), prior to the actual backup process. The advantage of this method is that it does not transfer un-encrypted data from one location to another at all. However, this method puts added CPU cycles for encrypting the data on the agent server.

Flow diagram - Agent Encryption

Not all Arcserve Backup agents have the capability to encrypt data prior to transferring it to the Arcserve Backup server.

The following Arcserve Backup agents support at the agent server data encryption:

The following Arcserve Backup agents do not support at the agent server data encryption: