encryption on backup tapes? - Veritas Backup Exec

Is there anyway to make the data on the backup tapes to be encrypted so
that the data would not be stolen if the tape get lost?

Please advise!

Thanks a lot!

Not built in to Backup Exec. But you can use some other third-party
encryption first, then backup it up.

-Barry.

Barry St.John wrote:
> Not built in to Backup Exec. But you can use some other third-party
> encryption first, then backup it up.
>
> -Barry.
>
>
I would appreciate it if you can recommend me what other third-party
encryption I can use.


Thank you very much!

I've never used it, but NetWare 6.5 has volume-level encryption built into NSS.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/...6.html#bpy5h36

-Barry.

Barry St.John wrote:

> I've never used it, but NetWare 6.5 has volume-level encryption built
> into NSS.
>
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/...5h36.html#bpy5
> h36
>
> -Barry.

That's true, but it does not help in getting data encrypted to tape as
the read operation decrypts the data on the fly so that the backup
software has unencrypted data to process. But you maybe could get data
encrypted if you are backing up to disk and your backup volume is
encrypted - I never tried this - so no experiences.

--
W. Prindl

W_ Prindl wrote:
> Barry St.John wrote:
>
>> I've never used it, but NetWare 6.5 has volume-level encryption built
>> into NSS.
>>
>> http://www.novell.com/documentation/...5h36.html#bpy5
>> h36
>>
>> -Barry.
>
> That's true, but it does not help in getting data encrypted to tape as
> the read operation decrypts the data on the fly so that the backup
> software has unencrypted data to process. But you maybe could get data
> encrypted if you are backing up to disk and your backup volume is
> encrypted - I never tried this - so no experiences.
>
Sorry that I have not quite understood what you mean. Can you explain to
me again about "you maybe could get data encrypted if you are backing up
to disk and your backup volume is encrypted"?

Thank you all very much for all the responses.