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Vamsi1
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8 years ago

NetBackup - Tape level Encryption

Team, In my current Netbackup environment. Encryption is enabled at the tape library level Encryption. Encryption Key Server type is “Q-EKM”. This was configured long back when I was not with this ...
  • Marianne's avatar
    8 years ago
    This is the beauty and problem with encryption - if neither the person nor the documentation can be found, there is absolutely no way that anyone can help you.
  • Nicolai's avatar
    8 years ago

    You won't be able to retrive the key. The key should have been written down and saved in safe place.

    Q-EKM is a Quantum product, please see 

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/000011272

    I recommend you switch to Netbackup KMS Tape drive envryption with you have LTO4 and newer. 

    It is really easy to do, and transperant to the rest of NBU operation

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/000037336