Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Stump, Bob A wrote: > The government requires that tapes be smelt Sounds fishy to me :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelt .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillis

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Stump, Bob A Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:49 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions. The government requires that tapes be smelt but I don't know what they are sup

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Stump, Bob A
ehalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:50 AM To: jpis...@lucidpixels.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions. I use a company to do it. Was Media Recovery - Now known as dataSPAN. 1) They will degauss o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
as-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:43 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions. Had a few questions. 1. How do you handle it? 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Lightner
nt: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:55 AM To: Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions. I the past when I have had to get rid of a bunch of old media. I did some net searching and found a company that specifically dealt with t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > 1. How do you handle it? > 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you > send them off-site, that is one option. Iron Mountain also offers a tape destruction service. For a fee, of course. > 3. How much are

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread James Osbourn
I the past when I have had to get rid of a bunch of old media. I did some net searching and found a company that specifically dealt with this as well as equipment recycling. They agreed a price for the amount of tapes that I had; collected them and then they were confidentially destroyed. I b

[Veritas-bu] Tape media destruction questions.

2009-01-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Had a few questions. 1. How do you handle it? 2. You can send tapes off-site to Iron Mountain, degauss them before you send them off-site, that is one option. 3. How much are the machines that "securely" and physically destroy the tape media? 4. If they're physically destroyed, how do you deal w