If the data you are backing up allows for it, I would suggest just PGP
encrypting it, and then tarring it up before sending it to tape.  There are
various open source and closed source options for PGP. I tend towards GPG (
http://www.gnupg.org/) myself...

-Shane

On 7/6/06, Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR <Bhangui.Sandeep at bls.gov> wrote:
>
>  Shane
>         What are the tools available to doing encryption outside of
> Netbackup and than taking that encrypted data to tape?? Are these products
> expensive??? We may have a requirement at our site for such thing for few
> servers.
>
> Thanks
> Sandeep
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Shane Liebling
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:02 AM
> *To:* Dave Carpe
> *Cc:* veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Wooten,FH Frank @ IS
> *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] encryption
>
> Your other option is to just encrypt the data yourself before it hits tape
> - its what we do at my workplace if we need encrypted backups.
>
> -Shane
>
> On 7/6/06, Dave Carpe <david_carpe at symantec.com> wrote:
> >
> >   Data written to tape is not normally encrypted.
> >
> > There is a NetBackup Encryption Option that you can purchase on a per
> > client basis that encrypted the data from the client all the way to the
> > tape. The encryption strength can be set anywhere form 40 or 6 bit DES up to
> > 256 bit AES (assuming you have NBU 5.1 or higher).
> >
> > Bear in mind that encryption will make the data essentially
> > uncompressible so turn on software compression on the client of you want it
> > and use the uncompressed tapes drives. Since encryption (and compression)
> > will take place on the client, it will impact backup speed and varies by how
> > high the encryption is set.
> >
> > The other option is look for hardware compression between the Media
> > server and the tape drives.
> >  ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:
> > veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Wooten, FH
> > Frank @ IS
> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:23 AM
> > *To:* veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] encryption
> >
> >
> >
> > Guys,
> >
> >     When a backup is written to tape, is there any type of encrypting
> > that occurs and if not is there something within Netbackup you can turn on
> > to make the data encrypted.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> > Frank Wooten
> >
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> >
> > L-3 Integrated Systems
> >
> > 903-457-3934
> >
> >
> >
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