On Sat, 27 May 2006, Tape King wrote:

TK> Well all I am saying is that Legato claims to be able to encrypt the 
TK> backup tapes in 7.3, they dont say "except for NDMP". They cannot even 
TK> encrypt their own EMC NAS devices.
TK>   Also I dont care about encrypting the data over the network, it is 
TK> in case a tape is lost my company does not have to be embarassed in 
TK> the news by saying "we lost your info on a backup tape".
TK>   Alot of people have alot of data on these NDMP devices and legato 
TK> needs to be able to encrypt their backup tapes too.
TK>   The workaround, which I came up with and legato was like, oh yea 
TK> that would work.
TK>   It is to backup the NDMP as a mapped drive from a windows host, but 
TK> then I have to exclude that folder from the regular NDMP backup which 
TK> is a huge pain and I lose some legato functionality doing that.
TK>    
TK>   I could by a Decru hardware encryption device but that cost $100K ! 
TK> Ill take legato for free thanks.

You can get a SpectraLogic library with BlueScale encryption, which is 
transparent to the attached hosts. If you need to do disaster recovery, 
you can use their software on a host to decrypt a tape and make an 
unencrypted copy to another tape.

//Oscar

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