I use a company to do it. Was Media Recovery - Now known as dataSPAN. 1) They will degauss onsite before the tapes leave your building 2) They may buy the tapes from you after that (they clean and sell them as used - because they are degaussed before they leave your site they are good to go) 3) They will also physically destroy them and take care of the disposal of the leftovers in proper environmentally fashion. 4) You can get a certificate that says you had so many tapes or cd's destroyed for audit compliance.
I have used them for years. -----Original Message----- From: veritas-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. 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 with the tape shards, how do you dispose of the material? How do others on this list deal with bad tapes (with thousands of errors etc) how do you properly dispose of them? Justin. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
