We use DataSPAN (formally Media Recovery) –
they have an office in my city.
We have them bring the degausser onsite.
Then let them take the tapes offsite for shredding
/ destruction.
We get a certificate that they were
destroyed.
Any tapes that I think just might need cleaning;
they degauss onsite first then take back for cleaning and recertifying.
If the tape fails it is destroyed, if it
passes we get it back.
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Destruction
/agree with Ed
Also, you might want to consider local
destruction instead of shipping things off to "professionally
certified" blah blah blah... data destruction houses. We had a
pallet ready to ship to some place that would certify the destruction etc for
about $5000 and we found a local shop that picked up and shredded the media for
about $350. Further I got to "certify" the destruction with my
own eyes. I can't believe the premium paid for a piece of paper that says
your data got destroyed. At the end of the day that's a very expensive
piece of paper that most places are probably not legally required to have.
-Jonathan
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Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:02
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Heathe Kyle Yeakley <hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
I would like to know how everyone handles media destruction. I know
about degaussing and shredding for tapes containing sensitive
information, but what about tapes that do not have sensitive information
or even cleaning tapes?
We never really, really know for sure if the tapes have sensitive information
or not so we always play it safe - we send our tapes to Iron Mountain
for destruction. By the time I research what could have been on that tape
previously, my company will have paid less to just destroy the tape properly.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
