Best way to completely remove or trash the data is to buy or rent a magnet
machine which you put your tapes in and a big magnet makes all data
unreadable.

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnson, Tony -Research" <gjohnson AT ADMWORLD DOT com>
To: "Veritas-Bu (E-mail)" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] erase tapes


> I am in the unenviable position of having to destroy backups.  I was just
> wondering if there is a command line way in netbackup to erase tapes in a
> robot.
>
> I really don't want to write zeros to the tape drive and load the tapes
> manually
>
> Tony
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