>"Bryan O'Halloran" <[log in to unmask]> writes: >I am about to try and test my disaster recovery plan. I seem to have >most things under control with one great exception. We wish to put a >portion of our files on the discs at the recovery site but after the >test we wish to leave no trace of data behind. >What is the quickest way of destroying the data on discs? Is VOLUTIL or >the various disc diagnostics running under SYSDIAG faster or this there >a faster alternative? >I am not sure of the model of the discs at the Disaster Recovery Site >but I guess that they will be the 2 gb SCSI discs. >Many thanks >... Bryan O'Halloran >~~~ Blue Wave/RA v2.05 [NR] Bryan, If you would like to blast your data away using SYSDIAG make sure you boot from your offline diag tape and load SYSDIAG from tape into the hp-ux diagnostic shell. Also make sure you use a rev 3138 or earlier tape as more current tapes may be password protected. Don't forget that you will use the PDEV=X.Y.Z commands in SYSDIAG since offline diags don't understand LDEV's. If you try to remove your data on-line using SYSDIAG you will encounter a message telling you that you have to first have "distructive mode capabilites". With the use of a special boot-up command string you can do Write diags to ldevs 2 or higher, however no matter what you do on-line you cannot touch ldev 1, that is why I suggest you boot your offline diags if you go the SYSDIAG route. Good Luck! Tom Pintacsi The Happy CE :-) Ideal Computer Services Tom Pintacsi The Happy CE :-) Ideal Computer Services