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

2009-01-16 12:35:32
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable
From: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
To: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>, <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:20:52 -0500
I meant to say "do NOT really" rather than "do really".

By the way this is all my opinion.  I'm not a lawyer so follow the
advice at your own risk.

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

I'm assuming you want to be able to use the tapes as scratch tapes.   If
so then I'd suggest just loading in the drive and doing a simple tar to
the tape - that will overwrite the header information.

Of course if you KNOW that "there is a possibility" legal might NEED
these tapes for litigation that is pending YOU could be held legally
responsible for doing this by the courts or the plaintiffs you've
frustrated.   

You need to insure whatever action you take is in line with EXISTING
retention policy and is NOT being done in light of some legal action
that is pending.  

Personally I wouldn't bother with this at all. If legal comes to you and
says you have to save all tapes then you should be saving everything
with infinite retention already and tell them how much it costs to keep
every backup ever made.   Most legal departments do really want you to
save everything forever - only for as long as the law requires.
Plaintiffs can not compel your organization to provide information that
it no longer has but they can compel it to provide information that it
does have.   The legal argument for "scratch" tapes is that the
information that tells you WHERE the old backup is no longer exists so
they can't really compel you to re-import old scratch tapes on the off
chance one of them contains information they might want.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of rvadde
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:46 AM
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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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