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satish_kumar2
Level 3
12 years ago

Need suggestion on encrypting tapes

Hi All,   Our environment is Netbackup 7.1 on Solaris 10 , connected to SL library [ TD 4 drives ] through NDMP host    we have got a scenario of encrypting 500 non-encrypted tapes before shi...
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  • The_Skip's avatar
    The_Skip
    12 years ago

    Satish,

    Hardware Encryption for LTO3 tape drives was not available at the time the drives were released so generally LTO3 tapes are not supported for the same hardware encryption.

    MSEO is software based compression and encryption. You would have to make sure to size your media server to add the encryption load but it would support encryption LTO3 tapes and drives. MSEO is installed seperately and has it's own KMS management.

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO70072

    Regards,
    Skip

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The_Skip
Level 3
12 years ago

MSEO would work to run a duplicate from one drive to another and encrypt the data. It would read in the non-encrypted data and then write it out encrypted to the second drive.