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How do I wipe a Sun Santricity SAN Array

I need to wipe all data from an out of support SUN Santricity array before we send it to EMC for a trade in. (Yes EMC is took our SUN in part for a CX-480) Does anyone have advice on how to wipe this?
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Tools to wipe a hard disk

Possible Duplicate: Deep Format of a Harddrive on a Linux System Do you know tools (Linux live CDs, bootable DOS tools) to wipe hard drives?
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How can I secure erase a drive using Powershell?

Does Powershell have a built-in way to secure erase a disk? By secure erase, I mean writing random data or all zeros to the entire disk. By disk, I mean the whole physical disk, not individual files, mounted volumes or filesystems. I found…
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How to securely delete a file's NAME from the filesystem?

I want to delete a file on a linux ext4 file system such that the disk does not contain the name of the file anywhere on the disk (free space, file system metadata, or anywhere else). For example, I don't want any trace that a file named…
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Secure disk wiping tool for Windows

I need to securely wipe a drive from within Windows 7 and can't find a good tool to do so. Eraser doesn't seem to have a setting to wipe a whole drive, DBAN requires not being in Windows. Over in UNIX I'd just use dd. Suggestions much appreciated.…
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Wipe out hard drive on HP box using DBAN from CD?

I need to create CD for wipping out hard drives before boxes are decomitioned. Considering to use DBAN: does it matter that the boxes are running HP Unix? Will this effect anything? is there a different version for different architecture? I would…
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When will deleted data be permanently gone from Heroku postgres continuous backups?

According to Heroku Postgres Data Safety and Continuous Protection data is backed up continuously into Amazon S3 buckets. If I delete a bunch of rows, for example, all confidential data from 1 particular client, when can I assure the client that the…
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Is the shred utility always safe given a good random number generator?

I recently experimented with different methods of disk randomization to find what would get the job done fastest. The openssl random number generator with AES in counter mode was said to be pretty fast, so I tried piping its output to dd (to limit…
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Shredding data on a live server

Which is the best way to shred all data from a live dedicated server? I have no physical access nor any out of band remote management functionality to the server, only SSH access. Server is running Debian 6 Update Server has ext3 partitions. From…
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Any way to completely remove sensitive content from the HDD before returning CentOS dedicated servers?

We are going to return a few rented CentOS dedicated servers and I was wondering about any way to remove sensitive content (a few folders) from the HDD before returning these servers? Maybe some Linux alternative to "Eraser"? If so, what are those…
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Safe deleting a LUN in VMware

I have a LUN in our VMware 6.7.0 world. For a specific project we need to safe-delete (with a standard method like DoD 5220) the data on this LUN with some kind of deletion protocol. The underlying storage system is a 3PAR SSMC with VMFS 5 and the…
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DD command to destroy data

Should I delete the important files of the disk and then boot into live disk and run dd command or is it okay to run dd on /dev/sda without having to delete? I'm asking this because I've already started running dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M.…
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wipe SDA using DD command

I have a question about secure delete. SDAx is ext4 and SDA5 is the root. Can I run dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4096 while I'm connected to the server through ssh or from console? Or do I need have a live boot cd in order to do that? Or maybe…
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Can I safely trim /var/tmp/phd/log/daemons.log?

I have a server running Phabricator and this log file has no logrotate. It is getting too big and now I need to trim it. Can I safely remove some of its content?
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Make sure I have overwritten every bit with dcfldd

I am using dcfldd to wipe a drive and lear forensics. I don't really want to have to deal with the math of the blocks and sectors, and just want dd or dcfldd to write over every possible bit on the drive or device. As an example I saw this…
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