Encrypting And Shredding Data - Sun Microsystems Virtual Tape Library User Manual

Encrypting and shredding data
Exporting data from a report
1. In the object tree of the VTL console, expand the Reports node and right‐click
the name of the report that you want to export (
You can export server and device throughput and usage report data to comma‐or
tab‐delimited text files.
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2. In the context menu., select Export (
3. When the Save dialog appears, use the Files of type list control to select the
desired format (
Stop here.
Encrypting and shredding data
To ensure that the data that you export to physical tape is confidential and secure,
VTL offers a Secure Tape Option that uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
algorithm published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an
agency of the U.S. government. With this option, you can create one or more keys
that can be used to encrypt the data when it is exported to physical tape and decrypt
it when it is imported back to virtual tapes. The data on the tape cannot be read
without being decrypted using the appropriate key.
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