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Re: [Networker] Encryption Questions
2009-08-15 11:43:13
On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:47, Stan Horwitz wrote:
Encryption is such a bag of worms, but for NetWorker shops who just
want to protect their backup tapes during transit to/from an off-
site vault, NetWorker's encryption feature works.
I'm sure it does, but it also removes any benefits of compression that
you get on the tape drive (or even the client). It also kills any
dedupe functionality in VTLs.
There's a trade-off that needs to be made between security and
resource usage, and the trade-off is not necessary.
The 'aes' ASM is a useful and important feature to know about, but a
short-term kludge IMHO. Perhaps in 7.6 (8.0?).
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