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Subject: Re: deleting data of tape cartridges
>Richard, you're right but I thought that the commands (delete filespace,
>delete volume) are only clean up the database and not deleting anything on
>the physical tape cartridges.
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>I'm looking for a method to delet
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Subject: Re: deleting data of tape cartridges
if you are running tsm or adsm you can try the following command
DELETE VOL * DISCARD=YES
(***) = volname
if you are running tsm or adsm you can try the following command
DELETE VOL * DISCARD=YES
(***) = volname
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Subject: deleting data of tape cartridges
Author: uwe.schonacher ([EMAIL PROTECTED
I thought you could degauss them, but it would ruin the tape, so it could
never be used again.
Nick Cassimatis
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>Richard, you're right but I thought that the commands (delete filespace,
>delete volume) are only clean up the database and not deleting anything on
>the physical tape cartridges.
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>I'm looking for a method to delete data on tape cartridges physically.
Ah - what you're looking to do is erase th
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From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: deleting data of tape cartridges
>does anybody know a method of deleting data on tape cartridges (3590)
>without rewriting and destroying them? We need to wipe out
Add parameter discarddata=yes to delete volume command..
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>does anybody know a method of deleting data on tape cartridges (3590)
>without rewriting and destroying them? We need to wipe out round about 200
>tape cartridges an looking for a efficient method to do this.
Uwe - There is DELete Volume for such a task.
At a higher level, you could do DEL
Hi Chaps,
does anybody know a method of deleting data on tape cartridges (3590)
without rewriting and destroying them? We need to wipe out round about 200
tape cartridges an looking for a efficient method to do this.
Thanks
Uwe
