topic Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server in Operating System - HP-UX

Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

Terrence — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:11:29 GMT

We're replacing a few servers and I'm curious about a quick and easy way to remove all our data from the hard drives.

Media init certainly isn't enough. Perhaps a script that writes a file over every byte on the disk?

What has everyone done in the past?

Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

melvyn burnard — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:21:08 GMT

There ar eplenty of threaqds in the ITRC discussing this.

Here are a few:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957297

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=956898

Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:25:05 GMT

Hi,

How about dd ing a few times.

# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rdsk/cxtydz bs=1024k

# dd if=/dev/random of/dev/rdsk/cxtydz bs=1024k

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

Terrence — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:26:15 GMT

Good enough!