I've created my own in the past using a Linux system, bash script and the IBM tape tools. I would create a loop to mount all slots to a drive and write until full, then eject back to the slot and go to the next element number in the library and do the same. It would take a long time to do this and I'm sure there are better ways of doing it but the script was simple, only took an hour or so to write but this was 10 years ago, maybe the cli tools have changed, I do very little with tape these days.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:30 PM Skylar Thompson <skyl...@uw.edu> wrote: > TSM does not, and my understanding is that most regulatory environments > require some kind of physical destruction anyways as simply overwriting the > tape (even multiple times) is not sufficient to guarantee that the data are > unreadable. > > Note also that TSM can manage hardware encryption with LTO drives (the > mechanism varies depending on library and generation of LTO) which might be > sufficient, though you have to take care that your database backups are > handled separately since it will be unencrypted to allow the encryption key > to be read in a disaster. > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 05:31:41PM -0500, yoda woya wrote: > > Does TSM offer a utility to wipe LT0 tapes. I would like to > > override whatever data is there. Thanks in advance for your assistance. > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) > -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator > -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 > -- University of Washington School of Medicine >
