Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-17 Thread Helder Garcia
On 2/17/07, Roger Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . True, but "other tools" should not have access to the tapes. If they do, Tell this to the intruder :) and they're mostly from internal staff. The simple assumption that "other tools (or people) should not have access to X" is not enough

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-17 Thread Roger Deschner
. True, but "other tools" should not have access to the tapes. If they do, then you've got a much larger data integrity problem to solve. Reading beyond the end-of-tape mark is not possible when the only program able to access the tape is the TSM server. If there is a way to run these "other tools"

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Helder Garcia wrote: On 2/16/07, Kauffman, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you looking at erasure before reuse? I can't see a reason for this. Yes, there are reasons. While you're reusing the tape, there is still old data on the "unused" part of the tape that

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Helder Garcia
On 2/16/07, Kauffman, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you looking at erasure before reuse? I can't see a reason for this. Yes, there are reasons. While you're reusing the tape, there is still old data on the "unused" part of the tape that can be read with other tools. -- Helder Garcia

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Kauffman, Tom
or Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tape Erasure >From searching the archives, it seems that TSM does not have a tape erasure ability, but must be done outside of TSM. I understand TSM, and that th

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Drew, Shawn
PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape Erasure Just to clarify, data shredding is available for random access disk pools only, not for sequential disk or tape. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Ra

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Behalf Of > Andrew Carlson > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:05 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape Erasure > > > From searching the archives, it seems that TSM does not have a tape > erasure ability, but must be done outside of TSM. I understan

Re: Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Drew, Shawn
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape Erasure From searching the archives, it seems that TSM does not have a tape erasure ability, but must be done outside of TSM. I understand TSM, and that there is little to no need to erase a tape, but of course, management doesn't always understand

Tape Erasure

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Carlson
From searching the archives, it seems that TSM does not have a tape erasure ability, but must be done outside of TSM. I understand TSM, and that there is little to no need to erase a tape, but of course, management doesn't always understand or believe that. Has anyone solved this problem,

Re: Tape erasure

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Zarnowski
You could use "tctl erase". This writes zeroes to the tape. At 11:29 AM 2/7/2005, Nancy Reeves wrote: Is there a way to "erase" tapes via TSM? (Or AIX?) We have changed servers and tape format (from TSM4.1, AIX 4.something and a 3575 library) and I am on a quest to "scrub" the old tapes so we can

Re: Tape erasure

2005-02-07 Thread Richard Sims
On Feb 7, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Nancy Reeves wrote: Is there a way to "erase" tapes via TSM? (Or AIX?) We have changed servers and tape format (from TSM4.1, AIX 4.something and a 3575 library) and I am on a quest to "scrub" the old tapes so we can try to sell them instead of having to destroy them. Na

Tape erasure

2005-02-07 Thread Nancy Reeves
Is there a way to "erase" tapes via TSM? (Or AIX?) We have changed servers and tape format (from TSM4.1, AIX 4.something and a 3575 library) and I am on a quest to "scrub" the old tapes so we can try to sell them instead of having to destroy them. Nancy Reeves Technical Support, Wichita State Uni