Because of that fear, that is why the lawyers insist that I have the company
bring the degausser onsite, and destroy the data on the tapes before they ever
leave the building.
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I bought some "refurbished" LTO-2 tapes, fully expecting to find
someones old data but they were all blank. I only needed 10 of them for
a small project. After reading the stories posted here and elsewhere
about used media, I thought for sure I would get something. It is
possible the headers were blanked out (quick erase) and there might be
important bits on the rest of the tape, but I had no time to investigate.
> We use the same company and they have been great.
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> 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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> We use DataSPAN (formally Media Recovery) – they have an office in
> my city.
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> 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.
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> 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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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] *On Behalf Of
> *Martin, Jonathan*
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> To:* Ed Wilts; Heathe Kyle Yeakley*
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> /agree with Ed
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> 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.
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> -Jonathan
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] *On Behalf Of *Ed
> Wilts*
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> Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Destruction
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Heathe Kyle Yeakley
> <[email protected]_ <mailto: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?
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> 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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