Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction
2009-04-06 17:22:11
We use the same company and they have
been great.
Since we're on the subject of old tapes,
I would recommend that you do NOT sell your old media back to any company.
There's too much potential there for data not to be erased and it getting
exposed.
Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP, VCS ▪
Sr. Storage Engineer ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 757 N. Eldridge
Suite 200, Houston TX 77079 ▪ 281-584-4693
Keeping People and Information Connected®
▪ http://availability.sungard.com/
P
Think before you print
CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including
any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information,
and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received
this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from
your system.
<judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com>
Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
04/06/2009 01:39 PM
|
To
| <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>, <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>,
<hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com>
|
cc
| Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
|
Subject
| Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction |
|
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.
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:01 PM
To: Ed Wilts; Heathe Kyle Yeakley
Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape 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
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed
Wilts
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:02 PM
To: Heathe Kyle Yeakley
Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction
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_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
|
|
|