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Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

2009-01-16 17:41:24
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable
From: Bryan Bahnmiller <bryan.bahnmiller AT managedmail DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:24:18 -0600
I've often wondered about requesting an enhancement for a NetBackup
option - "Expire with prejudice" - just for these situations. Something
you could set on a global, pool or retention level basis...

> Greetings, 
>
> I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises are 
> aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the legal 
> purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a possibility that 
> legal might come back and ask to hold all tapes including the scratch tapes 
> because Netbackup has a mechanism to read those tapes and import them. 
>
> Is there a way we can make Netbackup tapes as unimportable easily with out 
> rewriting the whole tape?
>
> Thanks
>
>   
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