Yep, that's been our experience as well. At least for LTO, I believe the VOLSER is written unencrypted so both the library manager and clients can read it, while the storage pool data are encrypted using the key in the client database.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:35:15AM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote: > We need to discontinue one of our servers that is an LM and want to make > sure there aren't any gotchas. > > The last time I did this many years ago, the process was fairly > straightforward (checkout tapes, define library, paths, drives on target > server, check-in tapes on target server, redo all definitions on other, > Library Client servers). However, back then we weren't encrypting any tapes. > > Since the Encryption method is "Application Managed" (i.e. the ISP server > that writes to the tape maintains the keys), there shouldn't be any issues > - right? -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
