Hi, The powers that be have asked me to look into the quick recovery of laptops which use a product called SafeGuard Easy by Utimaco to encrypt the hard disk. Since they are all XP, ASR seems the obvious choice to restore the OS, hand-in-hand with Christies BMR to restore the rest.
I'm fine with the latter part of the solution, but I've no idea what kind of impact this SafeGuard Easy product will have on TSM. From what I understand, very high-level view, SafeGuardEasy encrypts the data on the disk according to the users password, so if the laptop's stolen and the hard drive ripped out, the data is useless as you need the user's password to decrypt the data. I would not expect there to be a problem with backup, but restore could be an issue as I don't think TSM will be writing through the encryption algorhithm to the disk - it will just write the data to the disk as it's received from the server. Does anyone know what kind of behaviour I can expect from this environment? I will hopefully be able to test this soon, but I could be wasting my time. Many Thanks, Matthew Aviva plc Registered Office: St. Helen's, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ Registered in England Number 02468686 www.aviva.com This message and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or e-mail the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. Also, if you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person.
