Hi Mark:
>From a practical (security) point of view, is there a difference? Have you ever tried
>to read a tape? How would you go about it and would you see, for example, the ASCII
>text of a NT or AIX script?
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Yes this is true but the data on the tape is not encrypted per se...
It's just not usable without the database...
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From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
Hi Mark:
I've been known to be wrong, but this was a question that was raised and my
understanding was the tapes are not readable without the database.
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Larry,
I do not think that the data on the tape is encrypted. There was some
discussion about this on the list a while back, you may want to check the
archives.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
1). Yes, you can checkout volumes from the tape library and store them
offsite.
2). Yes. I believe it copies the registery then backs it up. Try your gui
client and select system objects for NT.
3). Never did that but I can't see why not.
4).Yes, the data on the tape is encrypted.
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Hello fellow *SMrs:
I have a few questions that have recently popped up, that I am having a hard
time finding the direct response.
1 - If we create archives, do these tapes always have to stay onsite? -We
have over 250 servers and to keep this sort of data month after month for
three to seven years, we just do not have that capacity. Therefore, I was
wondering how I may accomplish creating archives and sending the tapes
offsite and not having one onsite. I need long term data storage - I was
working with backupsets, but they are time consuming and I really hate the
idea that only 1 backupset goes to 1 tape - Ex: - if I have 2 gigs of
information, I just wasted almost all of the tape for these 2 gigs.
2 - I know with NT that you can backup the registry. However, can the
registry be backed up when the system is online and can you restore the
registry to another location.
3 - Can you schedule a backup for just the registry - we have a situation,
that we may want to back up just the registry of a particular server once
every hour.
4 - The security team brought an interesting question to my attention. Is
the data that we send offsite, via copy pool, encrypted to where someone
could not just take the tape and view the data. My thoughts are that the
data is encrypted and cannot be recovered without the TSM database and in
order to restore the TSM database to another server, I would think there is
some sort of security there.
Any help on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Terry
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