



However, this can be tricky, especially with hardware encrypted drives, as even disk duplicators that do a sector by sector copying cannot back up data from hardware encrypted drives. It is your responsibility to ensure that valid and functional data backups are maintained. HP strongly recommends that you have a valid and reliable backup of the data before encrypting or decrypting a drive.Ideally you should have methods to protect against this or to prevent the user from doing this. This approach, however, still presents risks if a user decrypts a drive and then re-encrypts it but fails to provide the correct DAT file, it may no longer be possible to decrypt the drive.
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Although some customers choose to deploy across larger install bases without benefit of an enterprise solution, they avoid issues by having well defined processes for managing the DAT files for each user.For example, HP can sell licenses for Winmagic SecureDoc which provides enterprise capabilities including centralized management of DAT files for larger install bases. When deploying a large number of users, HP recommends using an enterprise solution because enterprise solutions provide better management and recovery capabilities for the DAT files.Ĭonsult your HP account team for assistance with finding an enterprise solution that meets your needs. HPDE is geared toward small and medium business environments (1-50 units) and does not offer enterprise management features.
