Decommissiong of HP9000 R-Class Server

[Oliver McNamee_1]

We have a HP9000 Rclass server and we need to permanently destroy all company data on the system, before it leaves our offices.

Could anyone advise of the quickest and most secure way to clear down the server?

Any help/suggestions very much appreciated.

Regards
Oliver McNamee

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You might have a look at this thread. It's an extreme approach. I suspect that a simple dd using /dev/zero will suffice. You should do this on your non-system disks before doing it to your system disks.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x24b53a7b3682d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Oliver

The best way to destroy data is to do a rm -rf on all the directories.

What I would do is :

1. List all teh data mount popints first .
2. lvreduce all dat amount points.
3. Vgexport all data mount vg's
4. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/cxtydz
5. Then do a rm -rf on root partition.
6. Also ensure ar before point no 5 that we cannot mount any of the data partitions.
7. Then I would reset the webconsole too.


Manoj Srivastava

[James Odak]

this may be more lengthy but reload the OS and put all the non OS disks into a new lvol
this should destroy all data and make it unrecoverable
and make the system easy to demo for resale

a shorter option
on all your data file systems
unmount them and run the newfs command on each one
newfs -F vxfs(hfs) /dev/vgxx/rlvolxx

Jim

[Shahul]

Hi

Do a pvcreate for each and every data HDD.

#strings /etc/lvmtab

Note down the device files for data VG. then

#pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx

Do this for all HDDs under that particular VG.

If U want to make system non bootable

#cd /stand
#rm vmunix*


Best of luck
Shahul