KMS encryption done by LTO4 drive can be restore with LTO5 drive?

[Apurva_Kumar1]

I have one setup with LTO4 drive running with netbackup 7.1.0.4. The backup uses KMS encryption. Now i have request to send the tape to different location and restore it there. The issue is that the drive there are LTO5. Is it possible to do that?

[RahulG]

yes you can restore it , should not be an issue . 

NetBackup 6.5 Hardware
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

Pages 214-215 seem to indicate LTO5's require 6.5.6 or later

and

NetBackup 7.x Hardware
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

Pages 162-163 seem to indicate LTO5's require 7.0.1 or later

[Apurva_Kumar1]

Thanks Rahul

I saw that as per the hardware compactibility it will work. I wanted to know that any one has done this and what was the result.

[RahulG]

If its there in compatibility list it has been tested and it should work as expected , if its not working then you may log support case for the issue.