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IF you are located in Illinois, by state law, you must either erase or
degauss TEN (10) times. This makes it impractical from a labor
standpoint. Physical destruction is really the only option, which we are
currently considering as we do a technology update with a 595-cartridge
tape library used
On Dec 15, 2007 6:27 PM, Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We may wind up buying a chipper machine, that reduces tapes and disk
drives to shreds. (Actually sounds like fun, and is probably accompanied
by lots of great noise. I think that destroying data in this manner will
wind up being
De-gaussing is the only practical way to erase a significant quantity of
tapes, and degaussing will render a number of modern tape formats
useless forever. One of them is LTO. Not sure about 3x9x. (It's
because, in addition to removing the data, degaussing also removes the
servo tracks on the
The servo track holds true for all 359x tapes. 3480 and 3490 can be
safely degauss and reused
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Curtis Preston
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Any market
Curtis,
3590 tapes are where IBM servo tracks were first invented
(unless it was 3570, I may be mistaken). 3592 and LTO are follow-on
technologies built from those first ones.
De-guassing shouldn't be the only way this could be done. It
ought to be possible to write multiple
The tape erase function is written up in the tape driver prog ref.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_Tape_Driver_PROGREF.pdf
But it does not talk of HIPPA.
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John
Sent:
I didn't say it was the only way. I said it was the only practical way.
The erase function takes too long per tape to be used in bulk.
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0600, Schneider, John wrote:
Greetings,
We have thousands of 3590, 3592, and LTO tapes which are about
to be decommissioned when their tape libraries are replaced. Some of the
3592 and LTO tapes are only 1-2 years old. Is there any market for used
