Re: Tape Encryption Methods?

I have a client that is very happy with their Paranoia. It is very fast and
ona 3hour backup it only added a few minutes vs no unit. I just did a very
quick check of a site selling those and the Paranoia3. It appears they still
only support SCSI devices. No SAS or Fiber. This impacted their recent
decision on upgrading to Power6 or Power7 since SCSI IOAs need IOPs when
supporting LTO tapes.

IBM's LTO4 and 5 libraries, like the TS2900, TS3100 etc do support
Encryption for the cost of enabling it with a key. However you may still
need to invest in a Key Manager like TKLM or a number of 3rd party devices
or packages.


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Ketzes, Larry <Larry.Ketzes@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Hello everyone,
Is anyone out there using hardware to encrypt their backup
tapes? If so, are you using the LTO4 drives? Anyone have any experience
with a tool like Paranoia2 that would do this?

Thanks, Larry

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