Or make copies of your 'one-pack' system and have each member of your DR team have a turtle shell at home with all the necessary tools and documentation (minus the master passphrase) to complete your recovery.
/Tom Kern --- "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 14:05 -0400 on 09/02/2006, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: IBM > announces Encrypting tape drives: > > >I was just trying to work out a 'cold-site' scenario with encrypted tapes. > >Seems like we'd need to build a 'one-pack system' with a running key > >ring then > >do the restores from encrypted tapes to build > >a 'whole' system. > > > >So if somebody steals my turtle shells for cold site they get all the tools > >to build a new system. > > Keep the one-pack system separate and send it via a different route > to the cold site. OK - Unless both shipments get there you are SOL > but the loss of either will not allow the exposure of your system as > would occur in the both shipped together scenario you reference above. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
