About Wiping A Disk - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual

48 Running tasks and jobs

About wiping a disk

About wiping a disk
Copy File options (continued)
Table 4-2
Option
Source
Location
Source credentials
Destination
Command Line
Credentials
You can use the Erase Disk task to wipe a disk clean. When you reallocate
hardware, you can use this task to ensure that none of the old data can be retrieved.
See "About deployment tasks and jobs"
You can choose to erase only the system disk. Or, you can configure the task to
erase all of the disks, including any attached USB/FW drives.
You must mark the Secure erase (DOD Compliant option) check box to perform
a Department of Defense (DoD) compliant wipe. If you choose this option, the task
wipes data according to the U.S. Department of Defense 5220.22-M standard.
According to the DoD standard, the following group of operations is performed
on the hard drive six times:
Description
The source of the file to copy. You can provide a local
path or select an existing file from the Deployment
share.
If you want to copy a file that is not on Notification
Server, make sure that you provide the credentials for
the file. For the UNC option to work, you must provide
the domain (or machine name) with the user name in
the domain\username format.
Any changes you make to a local file are not
automatically updated in the Copy File task. For
example, you copy a local file using this task and then
make changes to that file. If you rerun the task, the
same file that you previously copied is used. You must
modify your task first and select the same file to ensure
that your changes are correctly copied.
The location to the files to upload or the location of
files that are already uploaded.
The credentials that you need to obtain the source files.
The location where the files are copied to.
The optional command-line instructions.
The credentials that are needed to execute the
command-line instructions.
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