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Hardware encryption and your Tandberg Data
LTO-5 and LTO-4 tape drive
Your Tandberg Data LTO-5 and 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 Tandberg Data LTO-5 3 TB and LTO-4 1.6 TB media; media
encrypted on a Tandberg Data LTO-5 and 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
Tandberg Data Support will be able to access the encrypted data.
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Understanding the LEDs
LTO-5 drives only
1 Encryption
– blue/amber
• On (blue or amber): at power on
• Off: drive is idle with no encryption key
• Off with Ready LED flashing: drive is reading/writing unencrypted data or
unloading cartridge
• On (blue): drive is idle with encryption key
• On (blue) with Ready LED flashing: drive is reading/writing encrypted data
• Blue and Amber flashing alternately: encryption or decryption error
NOTE:
The Encryption LED only appears on the LTO-5 tape drive.
LTO-5, LTO-4 and LTO-3 drives
2 Clean
– amber
• On: cleaning cartridge in use
• Off: the drive does not require cleaning
• Flashing: the drive needs cleaning
3 Tape
– amber
• Off: no fault has been detected
• Flashing: the cartridge currently in the drive is faulty (damaged or unsupported).
Discard the cartridge.
4 Drive
– amber
• Off: no fault has been detected
• Flashing: the drive mechanism has detected a hardware error
5 Ready
– green
• On: the drive is ready for use
• Off: the drive power is off or there was a failure during self-test
• Flashing: the drive is busy
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Choosing and looking after media
Your high-performance tape drive works best with high-performance Tandberg
Data LTO media.
For optimum performance always use a data cartridge that
matches the specification of your tape drive (see table).
Table: Tandberg Data LTO data cartridge compatibility
* Capacity assumes 2:1 compression.
The recommended cleaning cartridge is the Tandberg Data LTO universal cleaning
cartridge. This cartridge is designed to work with any Ultrium drive and may be
used for up to 50 cleans.
It pays to look after your media
Many tape drive and backup failures are caused by damaged or badly handled
tape media.
• Keep media in the case provided.
• Follow the temperature, humidity and acclimitization guidelines on the media
packaging.
• Avoid dropping it or rough handling, as this is likely to damage the cartridge.
• Inspect it regularly for damage.
• Do not exceed normal cartridge life (260 full volume backup or restore operations).
For detailed information on media care and best practice and to order online,
refer to
www.tandbergdata.com
.
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Other sources of information
There is a more detailed "User Guide" on
www.tandbergdata.com
.
If you need technical support or have any problem with your LTO-3 HH, LTO-4 HH
or LTO-5 HH tape storage solution, phone, fax and addresses can be found under
www.tandbergdata.com SUPPORT
.
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Write-protect switch
No
No
Read only
Read/Write
No
Read only
Read/Write
(Recommended)
Read/Write
Read only
Write Once Read
Many
(Recommended)
Write Once Read
Many
Read only
Write Once Read
Many
(Recommended)
Write Once Read
Many
No
Read/Write
(Recommended)
Read/Write
No
Read/Write
(Recommended)
No
No
Write Once Read
Many
(Recommended)
No
No
LTO-2 400 GB*
LTO-3 800 GB*
LTO-4 1.6 TB*
WORM
LTO-4 1.6 TB*
LTO-5 3 TB*
WORM
LTO-3 800 GB*
WORM
Tandberg Data
LTO-5 HH
LTO-1 200 GB*
LTO-5 3 TB*
Tandberg Data
LTO-3 HH
Tandberg Data
LTO-4 HH
