Although I agree with the seniment of throwing it out, you may want to trade
it in... I know we keep out tapes, as some manufacturers guarantee forever,
and will replace (At least from what I have been told).
At $100 per tape, it's a quick way to save some ADSM bucks.
Daniel Swan
HP Unix Team
ISM-BC
3030 2nd Ave SE
Calgary, AB, T2A 5N7
ph. 403-530-1726
fax: 403-530-1066
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 9:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> If the tape is unreadable, you might as well throw it in the garbage and
> hope you have another copy!
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren, Matthew James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
>
>
> 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
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
> >
> >
> >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
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
> >
> >
> >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?
> >
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:52PM >>>
> >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
> >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.
> >
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:26PM >>>
> >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.
> >
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:06PM >>>
> >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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