Re: Prepping server for decommission

   That's somewhat true... but someone looking at those disks in DST mode may
   still see more that you want them to.  I worked at a hospital and tested
   that once when getting rid of a box.  I could still see enough of certain
   records to make me nervous (SSNs, name fragments, diag codes, etc.).  The
   records weren't complete, but i'd still reinitialize them if you have
   privacy/confidentiality concerns.
   -----domino400-bounces+chadb=wheeling-nisshin.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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     To: Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 <domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     From: Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     Sent by: domino400-bounces+chadb=wheeling-nisshin.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Date: 01/20/2006 09:25AM
     Subject: Re: Prepping server for decommission

     Personally, we've always started to D mode and used the option to
     install
     LIC and initialize the system. You can also use the option to format the
     disk units from DST after this.

     Also, in theory if you then take out some hard drives and put them in
     different slots this should really foul up the RAID configuration, right
     (assuming that you are using RAID)? So even if something was retained
     the
     next person would have to get all the drives in the right slots to
     access
     it (since it's striped across multiple drives).

     Chris Whisonant
     Comporium
     Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
     IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
     IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
     803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
     http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

     domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on
     01/20/2006 09:05:16 AM:

     > As you probably are aware, we migrated to a new box recently.  The guy
     > here that handles all the paperwork got a letter from IBM stating that
     > they take no responsibility for data left on the drive when a server
     is
     > decommissioned and returned to them (we have it through a lease
     program).
     > My question for the list is:  What's the correct way to remove that
     data

     > so that it's not available for the next guy to run some utility and
     > recover it?
     >
     > Thanks,
     > Patrick
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