RE: V5R4 Encyrpted backups

Since we are looking at upgrading our 3581 LTO-2 to a compatible LTO-3
drive, I would be interested to see the difference between a standard
one and one that supports encryption.  If less than the Decru device,
then that is the way to go.  Wait and see again. 


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Subject: RE: V5R4 Encyrpted backups

Yeah, we loked at Decru and, I think NetApps devices.  They were about 
25K.  The NetApps one only supported Fibre Channel.  They said IBM 
diverge to much from the SCSI standard on their SCSI interface to a 
3580/3581 drive.

The Decru was more flexable.

So my original comment was that I thought BRMS w/ coprocessor would 
have sufficed. I guess that still would have been too great of a 
burden on the main processor by what I get from some of the other 
comments.