Agreed.  Simply relabeling the tape puts a EOD (END OF DATA) mark after the
label.  Every expert I've ever talking to says that getting past that is
impossible.  Therefore, my TECHNICAL opinion is that relabeling a tape falls
under the 'reasonable man' standard for making sure a tape is unreadable by
bad guys.

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Try label or quick erase.

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Sent: 16 January 2009 18:50
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Subject: [Veritas-bu]  Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable


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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