Actually, the new BrightStor Tape Encryption product gives you the ability to encrypt as desired. There is a CA-Disk version that will encrypt all backup tapes created by CA-Disk and there is a version that will allow you to encrypt all tape files regardless of the creating program. No need to change from existing tape media if you don't want to; your choice.
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Wickman Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: MVS LTO tape usage We have been approached with the idea of converting our tape backups from 3590 to LTO to get encryption for our off-site backups. There are claims by the vender that they interface with our DASD backup system and TMS (CA-Disk and CA-1). I'm just started asking questions like "What about stand-alone restore as a recovery option?" Has anyone else looked into this or have any comments they would like to share. Thanks for time and responses. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html