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Terrence
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‎10-03-2005 03:11 AM

‎10-03-2005 03:11 AM

Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

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?
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melvyn burnard
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‎10-03-2005 03:21 AM

‎10-03-2005 03:21 AM

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Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

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
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Robert-Jan Goossens_1
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‎10-03-2005 03:25 AM

‎10-03-2005 03:25 AM

Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

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

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Terrence
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‎10-03-2005 03:26 AM

‎10-03-2005 03:26 AM

Re: Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

Good enough!
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