Why would bacula care about hardware LTO encryption? It's transparent to the software.
Patti Clark Sr. Linux System Administrator On 3/6/12 10:14 AM, "Jeremy Maes" <j...@schaubroeck.be> wrote: >Op 5/03/2012 22:37, Alan Brown schreef: >> On 05/03/12 19:51, Alex Crow wrote: >> >>> Thanks Alan, >>> >>> I am specifically addressing the encryption support within Bacula: >>> >>> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Data_Encryption.html >> Openssl compresses _if_ compiled with zlib (it usually is) >> >> It's not hard to test, write to a file instead of tape media and compare >> size vs a tarball. >> >> If you are using a LTO device with built-in encryption then it's much >> faster as there is a dedicated engine for the task (LTO encryption is >> portable across drives as long as the key is retained) >Except for the fact that bacula doesn't support hardware LTO encryption... >> On that basis I'd only use bacula encryption for disk-based backups or >> on tape devices without builtin encyption. >Regards, >Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
