actiTape LTO-3 and LTO-4 internal SCSI and SAS – Quick Start Guide
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4. Connect the tape drive to a dedicated SCSI or SAS bus.
Hardware encryption on your actidata
LTO-4 tape drive
Your actidata LTO-4 tape drive provides the ability to hardware encrypt your data,
applying the strongest level of AES industry-standard encryption and protecting the
data from unauthorized access and use. Encryption is supported only on actidata
LTO-4 1.6 TB media; media encrypted on a actidata LTO-4 drive can only be
read on a compatible Ultrium tape drive that supports hardware encryption.
Hardware encryption can be used with or without compression and without speed
or capacity penalties.
IMPORTANT:
Hardware encryption is a powerful feature, but should be used
with care. If you need to import your media onto another machine or to recover
after disaster you will be required to enter an encryption key.
• Hardware encryption is turned off by default and is switched on by settings in
your backup application, where you also generate and supply the encryption
key.
• Your backup application must support hardware encryption for it to work. The
software supplied with the tape drive provides this support. See
www.tandbergdata.com for an up-to-date list of backup software.
• You should keep a record or backup of your encryption keys and store them in a
secure place separate from the computer running the backup software.
•
If you are unable to supply the key when requested to do so, neither you nor
actidata will be able to access the encrypted data.
