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[Veritas-bu] formating tapes

2003-05-10 04:59:53
Subject: [Veritas-bu] formating tapes
From: Sen" <discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net (Sen)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:59:53 +0800
i am using windows 2000.
i wanted to recycle tapes used from arcserve, do i need to format them using
NBU?

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>
> Do you want to actually erase the data from the tape or just have Veritas
> forget that there's anything there?
>
> If the latter try this:
>
> "NETBACKUP_HOME/bin/admincmd/bpexpdate -m MEDIA_ID -d 0".
>
> You didn't say whether you're using Windows or UNIX so I'll leave
> it to you to find NetBackup's home area.
>
> If the former then the answer really depends on how erased you want it to
> be.  Enough that your co-workers can't read it?  Competitors?  The NSA?
> If you're on a UNIX system the simplest thing would probably be to dd
> /dev/zero to the tape several times, though the NSA and well-heeled
> competition will still probably be able to get data off of it if they
> really want to.
>
> On Sat, 10 May 2003, Sen wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> > is there a way to erase and format a tape in Netbackup 3.4 ?
>
> -Jason
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