Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 07 February 2009 08:36:03 Jason A. Kates wrote: > It might be a run during mount command. Keeping track of the keys > would still need to be done within Bacula. I assume you mean "specification of the keys" rather than "keeping track of the keys", since Bacula isn't a key manager, a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-06 Thread Jason A. Kates
It might be a run during mount command. Keeping track of the keys would still need to be done within Bacula. -Jason On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:15 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Jason A. Kates wrote: > > > It's not just turn on encryption t

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.02.2009 04:23, Frank Sweetser wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Jason A. Kates wrote: >> >>> It's not just turn on encryption then start Bacula its slightly more >>> complicated. It may be just running an external script with >>> parameters >>> before telling mt

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
Dan Langille wrote: > On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Jason A. Kates wrote: > >> It's not just turn on encryption then start Bacula its slightly more >> complicated. It may be just running an external script with >> parameters >> before telling mtx to load the next tape. >> >> The encryption will n

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Jason A. Kates wrote: > It's not just turn on encryption then start Bacula its slightly more > complicated. It may be just running an external script with > parameters > before telling mtx to load the next tape. > > The encryption will need at the volume level, the

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Jason A. Kates
It's not just turn on encryption then start Bacula its slightly more complicated. It may be just running an external script with parameters before telling mtx to load the next tape. The encryption will need at the volume level, the key management will also need to be dealt with possibly with an

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It seems to me that this is something that should be handled externally to Bacula. Bacula does not issue any SCSI commands directly (indirectly via mtx) and that is not something we are planning. I think there are sufficient features already in Bacula to permit one to turn on/off encry

[Bacula-devel] Feature request: Hardware Encryption on LT04 Drives

2009-02-04 Thread Jason A. Kates
Kern, I have this feature request: What: To provide a way for the storage daemon to enable hardware encryption on tape drives that support encryption. Why: Hardware encryption should not effect the backup speed and will still allow hardware compression of the data being backed up. LT04 and