Another option available "later this year" will be LTO-4 tape drives 
which will have the option to encrypt data in the tape drive. Of 
course, it will only help if you can upgrade your hardware to LTO-4, 
and can feed the tapes fast enough (probably around 50MB/sec to keep 
them happy).

Also, it doesn't encrypt the data until it gets onto the drive - 
maybe an issue for some.

oh well.

At 11:20 am -0500 6/7/06, Ed Wilts wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:23:02AM -0400, Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR wrote:
>>          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.

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