Hello Networker Community!

I am running Networker 8.1 on Server 2008 R2.

I am new to Networker. I come from a Backup Exec environment. In Backup Exec, I was able to create a policy to send a monthly Full backup to disk, followed immediately by a job sending that Full backup to Tape. When the data was written to Tape, it was hardware encrypted with a 256 bit encryption key housed on the server. The only reason we write to Tape is for our mandatory 10 year retention policy.

I am looking to do the same thing in Networker. So far I haven't found an automated way to do the backup portion, so every month I select the checkbox on a Group to do a Clone and then I send that clone to Tape. This all works great, even though it's a manual process. But what I haven't been able to do yet is setup the hardware encryption process. Even if I had to do software encryption, that would be fine with me. But I only want the data written to Tape to be encrypted (the clone), not the data that's first written to disk. I have read a lot of documentation on how I can setup a password on the client side, but I don't want all the backups to be encrypted, only the clones to Tape. When reading about hardware encryption, I read that I might have to use third party software.

Any chance someone can lead me through setting up my Backup Exec scenario on Networker?

Thank you!!!