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 : 




Message: 4
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.

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