On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 10:48 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
"Mike" == Mike Mueller Michael.D.Mueller@jpl.nasa.gov writes:
Mike> We will be retiring a NetApp filer soon and are required to Mike> sanitize storage devices. Is there a command that will sanitize Mike> the disks, preferably by overwriting the data?
disk sanitize start <disk>
Login to your filer and do 'man disk' for details. It will take a long time to complete though, esp if you do it across a large number of disks.
This only works for some version of 6.x and newer, not sure which though.
Ah, I guess I shouldn't have let my maintenance expire without upgrading to a later version, but we got delayed migrating the data to another server and taking it down for an upgrade is very difficult while in ops. I am running 6.3.1R1 and it doesn't have the disk sanitize command.
On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Holland, William L wrote:
after deleting your volumes, run "disk zero spares" -- it will zero all your spare disks - assuming you are running 6.5x prior to that you had to "priv set diag" then "spares_zero".
I can run the "priv set diag" and "spares_zero" commands. Not quite as thorough as the "disk sanitize" but better than trying to do something half baked via NFS. Is there a command that will cause the NetApp to crash all the heads into the disk surfaces, or perhaps a command to have the toaster make it's disks into toast? ;-)
Any other ideas? Spares_zero will have to if not.
Thanks,
-- Mike