How does the software specify the encryption key?  I read that it needs
specific SCSI commands, which Bacula doesn't send.

__Martin


>>>>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:12:47 -0500, Clark, Patricia A said:
> 
> Why would bacula care about hardware LTO encryption?  It's transparent to
> the software.
> 
> Patti Clark
> Sr. Linux System Administrator
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/6/12 10:14 AM, "Jeremy Maes" <jma AT schaubroeck DOT be> wrote:
> 
> >Op 5/03/2012 22:37, Alan Brown schreef:
> >> On 05/03/12 19:51, Alex Crow wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Alan,
> >>>
> >>> I am specifically addressing the encryption support within Bacula:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Data_Encryption.html
> >> Openssl compresses _if_ compiled with zlib (it usually is)
> >>
> >> It's not hard to test, write to a file instead of tape media and compare
> >> size vs a tarball.
> >>
> >> If you are using a LTO device with built-in encryption then it's much
> >> faster as there is a dedicated engine for the task (LTO encryption is
> >> portable across drives as long as the key is retained)
> >Except for the fact that bacula doesn't support hardware LTO encryption...
> >> On that basis I'd only use bacula encryption for disk-based backups or
> >> on tape devices without builtin encyption.
> >Regards,
> >Jeremy
> 
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