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DCME key disaster recovery

Status: New Idea Submitted by on ‎11-16-2023 03:36 PM
1 Comment (1 New)

I just underwent an exercise of recovering my controller in the event of a catastrophic failure. One of the steps is to recover the DCME keys (DCM Encryption keys) - which is documented here: https://help.alteryx.com/20221/en/server/install/server-host-recovery-guide/dcme-keys-to-backup.html...

 

This DCME recovery needs to be revisited. This document assumes that the previous controller is running. In a disaster recovery situation, this is not possible. What, if any, can be done to recover the DCME keys if the host has is completely irrecoverable?

 

For context, having an irrecoverable host has happened. Complete hard drive failure (showing my age), nuked virtual machine and its backups (no one paid attention to the notices that the data center was shutting down), and fire.

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hroderick-thr
11 - Bolide
‎11-22-2023 05:46 AM

I will upvote and suggest this might be part of standard database backup with appropriate security on the table