Three decades of successful tape data recovery - whether your tape is physically damaged or logically corrupted we have the ability to recover it for you
Tape has been, and still is the most popular, cost effective and durable method for securing and archiving valuable data. That being said things can go wrong and if they do its then that you need the help of Tape Data Recovery Experts.
As a key component of our end-to end process for the supply and support of your Tape assets Media Resources provides Tape Data Recovery Services for any type of computer tape, whether you have lost data due to physical damage, logical data corruption or tape drive failure.
Media Resources free tape data recovery diagnosis provides a detailed report on what data can be recovered, enabling you to make an informed decision before any recovery costs are incurred.
Our tape data recovery engineers have been successfully recovering data from tapes for many years and have the ability to recover data from all legacy tape architectures and media formats.
Physical formats
- LTO Ultrium formats including LTO1, LTO2, LTO3, LTO4, LTO5
- DLT7000, DLT8000, DLT11, DLT111, DLT1V, SDLT, TK50/TK70
- 4mm DAT (DDS1 – DAT72)
- Exabyte® 8mm cartridges
- Sony® AIT, S-AIT
- IBM® 3590, 3590e, 3592, 3592e, 3570
- Oracle® 9840, 9940, T10000K A, B, C
- QIC formats, SLR
- Open Reel Tape
- 3480, 3490e
- And many more...
Backup Formats
- Symantec Backup Exec
- CA Arcserve
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- EMC Legato Networker
- NetBackup
- Retrospect
- Tapeware
- BM AS/400
- VMS Backup
- Unix CPIO / Tar
- HP Omnibak
- And many more...
Tape Data Recovery Physical Damage
Whether a tape is snapped, creased, damaged by heat, water, humidity, smoke, fire, a faulty drive or suffering from degradation as a result of aging, recovery from these situations can be achieved when using experienced Tape Data Recovery Specialists and proprietary techniques typically not available within the data centre.
Tape Data Recovery – Logical Data Corruption
Issues such as the corruption of backups, the loss of a tape from a backup set or the re-initialisation of a tape containing live data can often provide greater challenges in terms of data recovery from tape than those instances of physical damage.
In instances of both physical and logical damage Media Resources Tape Data Recovery specialists have been successfully recovering data from tapes for many years and have dealt with each of the problems detailed above.
Attempting to recover data yourself in these situations can often make the situation more serious – call one of our tape engineers today who will be happy to provide advice and assistance.