From: Steve Chandler (schandler@APPLE.COM)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 11:31:46 EST
You can ask EMC to re "vtoc" the Symmetrix, this will erase all data on the
Symm in one go.
steve
Bill Thompson wrote:
> This is totally incorrect advice.
>
> Varying off and exporting a volume group will *NOT* wipe the data - in fact
> it will not touch the data. I can connect another AIX machine to the Symm,
> import the volume groups and read everything that was there before.
>
> If you have to do erase the data Simon (as always) has the correct answer -
> You must format the media.
>
> However, if you can get some assistance from EMC they have routines that
> can be run from the Symm console (the laptop connected to every Symm) that
> will perform this simultaneously on multiple disks (something you can't do
> from the AIX side). This will erase the data *much* quicker.
>
> Bill Thompson
> Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM>
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> To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
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> Subject: Re: EMC disk wipe all data
>
> > vary it off
> >
> > and export it
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave.Zarnoch@SUNG
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> all data
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> > 10/30/2002 10:16
> > AM
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have an RS6000 connected to some EMC disk drives
> >
> > The customer wants the system removed but wants all the data
> > on the EMC drives completely erased
> >
> > I thought about removing the volume group but I don't know if this
> > completely wipes all the data
> >
> > How can this be done?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave Zarnoch
> > UNIX Systems Engineer
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