Franco -

This came up a few months ago.  It depends on the sensitivity of your data
and the value it is to others.  Simply purging the database will leave the
data intact and anyone with a PC containing a SCSI card could easily image
your drives, and then reconstruct the database.  It takes time and effort.
The critical question you have to ask yourself is "How much time and effort
is the data worth to someone else?".  I assume you do not have state secrets
there, but how about HR records?  Private or confidential client
information?  Information valuable to your competition? etc. ...

It makes a big difference whether the data is worth $1,000,000.00 or $100.00
to someone else, as it also makes a difference whether exposure of the data
would be an annoyance to your company or results in a class action lawsuit
for not protecting private data properly.  Knowing the answer to these
questions will decide whether it is a 10 minute job, a 10 hour job, or
physical destruction of the drives job.  Only you know, or should know, the
answer.

- Peter M. Eggers


On 9/7/07, Francesco Catanzaro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> We've decommissioned our 957sx and was wondering what is an effective way
> of prepping it for sale as far as deleting the data in the Image database?
>
> I have to admit I am not the admin, the person we had left, so I am sort
> of
> staring at a
> big mysterious thing at this point.
>
> I can login to it and that is as far as I get.  I'd like to wipe the data
> on
> it and make it
> sale ready.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> -Franco Catanzaro
>
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