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Securely erasing tapes
Hey All... I am looking for a way to erase our older LTO tapes. Aside from eradicating the tapes with electromagnetic fields, what is the effectiveness of writing meaningless data over the tapes? Can the previous data on the tapes be recovered after the "garbage" is written to the drives? I've...
