I've created my own in the past using a Linux system, bash script and the
IBM tape tools.
I would create a loop to mount all slots to a drive and write until full,
then eject back to the slot and go to the next element number in the
library and do the same.
It would take a long time to do this and
TSM does not, and my understanding is that most regulatory environments
require some kind of physical destruction anyways as simply overwriting the
tape (even multiple times) is not sufficient to guarantee that the data are
unreadable.
Note also that TSM can manage hardware encryption with LTO
Does TSM offer a utility to wipe LT0 tapes. I would like to
override whatever data is there. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
