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#89 Document that exclude lists are included in cleartext in encrypted dumps

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2018-06-23
2018-06-23
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Originally created by: Hawk777

In the dump data on tape or vtape, at the start of each file, there is a header with a couple of plain text lines, the DLE definition in XML form, and a note for human consumption on how to restore the dump without using Amanda. This XML block contains the DLE exclude list. The header is not encrypted, even if the dump is otherwise encrypted. It might be nice to note in the documentation somewhere that the exclude list will be included in the dump data in cleartext even if the dump is encrypted, since this is not obvious and filenames could be considered sensitive data in some situations.

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