Try an electromagnet. I hear they work wonders on disk data :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Krueger [mailto:jkrueger@qualcomm.com]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:56 PM
To: Fox, Adam
Cc: 'Israel, Meital'; NetApp Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Deleting data on NetApp.
I just wish I could delete files on a NetApp from the console. It takes
forever and a day to remove a hundred or more GB off a filer from either
CIFS or NFS.
An "rm" in the ONTAP CLI would be super handy. It could work *much* faster
then over the wire. Further, an "rm -F" to delete files through the active
file system and all snapshots would even be keener. =)
-- Jeff
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 07:59:53AM -0700, Fox, Adam wrote:
> This comes up quite a bit. It all depends on who how sophisticated
> you think the person is who may be trying to retrieve the data is.
>
> For 99.99% of the world, just zero'ing the disks (even multiple times
> if it makes you feel comfortable) is enough.
>
> I suppose you could create some dummy data to put on the disks after
> you zero out the disks, then zero them out again. But that's a lot of
> time and effort to get you from 99.99% to 99.999%.
>
> If you are concerned about professional, government-backed efforts to
> recover the data, then your only real option is to destroy the disks
> entirely. Bust them into thousands of pieces and dispose of those pieces
> in different trash containers. While this is certainly expensive since
> you can't return or re-use the disks, it is by far the most secure.
> However, there are very few people who need this level of security, but
> it's an option if your data abosulutely cannot ever be recovered.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -- Adam Fox
> NetApp Professional Services, NC
> adamfox(a)netapp.com
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Israel, Meital [mailto:meital.israel@intel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:55 AM
> > To: NetApp Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Deleting data on NetApp.
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Does anyone know a utility to format the NetApp disks without
> > being able to
> > unformat it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > **************************************
> > Meital
> >
>