Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape encryption

Anybody any experience of Spectralogic's library-based encryption? We are about to start out no implementing this - basically the encryption, and optionally compression, is carried out in the fibre cards in the library. We will be using LTO2 and LTO3 drives.

I have some concerns around impact on performance and media usage especially with having to move the compression from the tape drives to the library, and 101 questions for the supplier around key management processes & procedures.

Doesn't seem as good as the Decru option, for one thing Decru as I understand it is NetBackup-aware; I don't think Spectralogic is, so we have to partition the library if we don't want to encrypt everything.

regards, Phil

Phil Weber
Storage Technical Services - Senior UNIX Technologist
Business Technology

Phone: 01384 26 4136
Egg Banking plc

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape encryption

Looking for some information regarding tape encryption, anyone out there using it? And if so what kind of tape degradation did you experience. We are being asked to implement it and we are just trying to figure out what we are going to need. Our environment is mixed with Windows and UNIX, all of our NBU servers are Windows (Master and Media) with a 20 drive LTO3 Library, over 900 clients. About 90% of our environment is running 6.0 MP4 and soon will be rolling out 6.5 w/ MP1. Any gotchas we need to be aware of.

Thanks

Dan

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