Hi,

On 12 jun 2011, at 05:53, Mehdi Salehi wrote:

> Hi,
> Tape volumes canned be accessed if there is no TSM database. If happens,

this is not exactly true. The tapes can be accessed. IBM just claims that it's 
hard/impossible to make sense of the data. That may or may not be true. There 
are some open source tools that do exactly that..

> restoring the database and gaining access to data seem to be very difficult
> (at least for me ;) ). Do you think encryption feature of tape drives has
> any value in TSM environments?
> 

Depending on your level op paranoia, and wether or not your shipping tapes 
off-site frequently.... yes.

> Thank you,
> Mehdi

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