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Re: Postgres Data Encryption Using LUKS with dm-crypt ?

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On 06/19/2017 12:40 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Condor <condor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What I should expect, what is good and bad things that can be happened.

I've run Postgres on a LUKS volume for a few years now and it's all been pretty quiet. One challenge is you need to supply the password if the server restarts. Automating that in a way that doesn't simply reveal the password is tricky.

I'm not using RAID, so I can't speak to combing LUKS + RAID.

If you are on AWS, nowadays they have encrypted EBS volumes which will do all this for you automatically. If I were setting up this system today that's probably what I would have used.

> I think the only real test here is to build a luks system, initiate
> some pgbench type runs, wait a minute, run checkpoint and then yank
> out the plug. Run a dozen or so times looking for data corruption.

I think this is really the right answer!

Paul




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