Patent ID: 8250378

Claim:
A system for encrypting data stored on media in a media library, comprising: one or more hosts coupled to a network and operable to send one or more commands over the network; a media library coupled to the network and comprising: a plurality of slots, wherein the plurality of slots include one or more secure slots; a look-up-table listing identifiers for each of the one or more secure slots; one or more drives coupled to the network and operable to receive data over the network; one or more media stored at corresponding slots of the plurality of slots; and a media changer coupled to the network and operable to receive the one or more commands over the network and move media between the plurality of slots and the one or more drives in accordance with the one or more commands; transfer logic operable to intercept the one or more commands to the media changer and parse the one or more commands to determine media moved to a drive from a secure slot by the media changer, wherein the determination is made by accessing one or more encryption policies listing the one or more secure slots of the plurality of slots as secure and an identifier for the secure slot; and encryption logic operable to encrypt data sent to the drive containing media from the secure slot in response to a determination that the media has been moved to the drive from the secure slot.