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erase tapes in stead of degauss
Hi,
I have Networker V 8.2 on Windows 2008 and on Windows 2012. I use a HP MSL4048 (LTO-3) and MSL8096 Jukeboxes (LTO-5).
I now have to erase the tapes that contain data that is too old.
I looked on the Jukebox and did not find a manual tape erase possibility...
Is there a tape erase possibility in Networker that overwrites a certain times the tape so no data can retrieved from it anymore ?
Best regards,
Johan Segers
crazyrov
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December 10th, 2015 06:00
There is no such feature in NetWorker that would help sanitize the tape. But you could however overwrite the tapes with junk data a couple of times to ensure that the original data cannot be retrieved. But again it might not be accepted as an ideal method to sanitize tape by any organization.
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December 10th, 2015 07:00
Labeling is a procedure as no standard tape drive will be able to read beyond a logical End-of-Tape mark which indicated the end of the valid data section.
As you work with HP stuff I assume that the HP Tape Tools have an erase feature that you can use.
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December 10th, 2015 12:00
Check erase commands (it comes with NW; at least UNIX/Linux.