Tape Security

[Jacob_Sampson]

I have veritas 9.1 and we have a courier that takes a tape off site each evening. Does veritas provide a means for securing the data on a tape. Something that I have seen is giving a password for catalog security but I seem to be able to still restore the data without needing the password so I am not sure what the catalog security is for.

Thanks for any help
Jacob Sampson

[Ken_Putnam]

Your system must be cacheing the password someplace, because it gets placed in the header on the tape, and must be furnished before standard tape access is allowed.

We did have someone report a while ago that a 3rd party app that would restore a single mailbox from a stores backup could bypass the password, because it was doing it's own tape access, apparently

[Joshua_Small_2]

Buy yourself one of those money boxes, and physically lock it up.

At least you know the latest technological advance won't defeat it.

[Gauri_Ketkar]

Hi,

-Do you have a standalone drive or Library ?

-Go to Backup job properties > device and media > Password protect media ..

Check out this option ..

Update us on the same and revert for any further Query
Hope this will help you


Thank you
Gauri


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