Mark, 

When you say that you have and HW encryption option available, do you mean that 
you use one from a third party vendor, or that you company sells one as part of 
the library?

Either way can you tell us more about the HW options. 

We have been using the netbackup option on two masters and can confirm that it 
does use a fair amount of cpu on the client. Which did not cause a problem on 
the thurput on intel based boxes.  But we did run into netbackup 5.1 timeout 
problems with the option turned on. It is supposed to be fixed with the new 
sched code in netbackup version 6.

len   

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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-admin 
AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pinder
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:03 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: NetBackup 5.1 Encryption Option Cost?

Hi Justin,
        I have no idea of the cost to turn this option on, but I do know that 
it will require an enormous amount of processing power and that there is a good 
chance you will see a performance/throughput hit that will be totally 
unacceptable to your backup schedule. 
        I would suggest that you get a demo license to test with before 
spending ANY money on it. 
        There are HW encryption options available (we have one) that probably 
would be more cost effective if you include the added server load required to 
encrypt your data. 

Mark Pinder : 
Systems Engineer: 
Spectra Logic : 




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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:01:44 -0500
From: "Piszcz, Justin" <jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 5.1 Encryption Option Cost?

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Does anyone know what the cost is for this add-on product under 5.1?

It allows multiple levels of encryption, AES 128, 256, Triple DES(?) etc-not 
just the legacy DES 56bit/etc encryption.

Choose an option: 3
Choose an option: q
You have chosen to install these Add-On Products:
        NetBackup Encryption
Is this list correct? [y,n] (y)=20
Enter the license key for NetBackup Encryption or q to skip this
product:

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