John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Backup tapes are probably the only stuff that absolutely *demands*
encryption.
This is generally considered a bad idea. If you lose the encryption
keys, your backups are now completely useless.
Ummm, like, duh?
So, you keep a couple copies of your encryption keys with various
members of the company and one or two securely offsite. With USB keys
this is trivial and cheap.
Anyone who needs to deal with that level of disaster recovery should not
have any issue with putting physical management of keys into the equation.
-a
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