Is having something thats unencrypted but unreadable the same as something
that is encrypted but readable?
OR:
Can you use IBM tape drivers to read usable information from ADSM tapes?
Matt Warren.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 12 October 2000 02:50:PM
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>Hi Larry,
>
>I think that encryption is encryption is encryption, any way
>you cut it. If
>the data on the tape is not encrypted, then it is not
>encrypted. If someone
>said took one of your tapes and said to you, "Larry, is the
>data on this
>tape encrypted?" what would you say? No of course.
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:36 AM
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>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...
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:41 PM
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>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
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>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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