(1) is an option but time consuming (3200 tapes!)
(2) might not be an option - it depends how paranoic you are. If someone
(usually a virus) fills sector 0 on a PC disk with garbage this does not
automatically mean the data is lost. But it might take too much efforts. If
the tapes are not degaused there is a chance that reading them might
uncover somehow at least some files (especially large ones occupy large
continuous blocks on the tape). And if you are very, very paranoic ...

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant





"Joshua S. Bassi" <jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM> on 03.01.2002 20:29:59
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Subject:        Re: 3590 Tapes.

There are several ways to do this:

1) Use another backup utility to write over the tape.  You can use tar,
cpio, NT backup, or whatever to write over either the whole tape or
merely the TSM label.

2) Just do # 1 above to the TSM DB backups since the remaining tapes are
useless without the DB backup.

3) Relabel the tapes using TSM - this could be the easiest if you no
longer want any of the data in the tape library.


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