FYI, you should know that Veritas is EXTREMELY touchy about the use of 
appliances like the DataFort, for at least two reasons:

(1) Veritas sells its own [software-based] encryption option for 
NetBackup.  Yes, it's undoubtedly slower than a dedicated encryption 
box, but I must imagine that the NBU encryption option might be getting 
a lot more engineering/design attention these days, given the recent 
flood of press emphasizing the need for encrypted backup tapes.

(2) These encryption appliances create backup tapes that are absolutely 
unreadable by NetBackup without an encryption appliance to decrypt at 
restore time.   Of course, this is the whole point of encryption, but 
it undoubtedly could create some extremely unpleasant fingerpointing 
possibilities if problems were to appear during a disaster recovery 
crisis.

So if you were to open a Veritas support call today and say,

    "I'm having problems restoring from my backup tapes... and oh by the 
way the data was encrypted with a Decru Datafort"

You run the risk of a very short answer along the lines of,

    "Don't call us, call Decru."

HTH
rob

p.s. that said, I know of at least one large company using the 
NBU/DataFort combination successfully in production environments today.


On Jun 19, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Michael L. Barrow wrote:

> John Coleman wrote:
>> I am researching to find a solution to encrypt all data going to tape 
>> from Netbackup.  I need a hardware based solution as to offload the 
>> utilization on the servers.
>
> To handle the encryption of the media (i.e., path from clients to 
> media server is not encrypted), I'm looking at the Decru DataFort 
> solution. In my opinion, they have the best overall solution. They 
> also recently announced that they're being acquired by NetApp.
>
> -- 
> Michael L. Barrow
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