Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction

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.

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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
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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
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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

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