David Magda wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 20:09, Davina Treiber wrote:
> 
>> David Magda wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any word on whether LTO-4's built-in hardware encryption can be
>>> utilized using Networker? Is this planned at all?
>>
>> It can be used with any backup software product. However, NetWorker does
>> not have any facilities to manage keys. If you use suitable hardware to
>> control the encryption you can set the drives up to use encryption and
>> it will be transparent to NetWorker. I have used it and it works fine.
> 
> I know of these separate KMSes, but was wondering if anyone knew of
> plans for basic functionality in Networker (a la NetBackup 6.5.2).
> 
> I work in a smallish department, and I have neither the budget nor the
> time to get one of these. I just want to click a check box and have my
> offsite backups of company source code and the customer database
> encrypted. (I would simply need to make sure my encryption key database
> is backed up separately, in the clear.)
> 
> Personally I think this is a common use case, and am hoping that it
> becomes available in the base Networker software (or a modestly priced
> option?).

I don't know whether it is planned, but it is not available right now. I
didn't know that NetBackup could do this but I did know that TSM can.

Some tape libraries have the functionality built in to manage the
encryption, where I used it the library was an IBM TS3500 (AKA 3494).

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