TAPE DATA RECOVERY
Tape Data Recovery
Lost Important Data? We can help!
It is a common practice to back up systems to tape drives. They are fast, convenient and are high capacity. However, tapes can fail for the same reasons as other magnetic media. If your backup tapes are unreadable, overwritten corrupt or damaged and you need to restore critical data, we can help. it Data Recovery has the equipment and experience to safely recover your company’s vital data so you can get your data recovered and your system restored as quickly as possible. We perform data recovery on all major tape formats, including AIT, DAT, DDS, DLT, LTO, QIC, Travan, VXA, and many others. We also handle any kind of damage, common or uncommon, minor or severe.
Some Common Causes of Tape Failure Are:
- Damaged by heat and smoke.
- Water Damage – Sprinkler System or Flooded.
- Damage Resulting from Dropping the Cartridge.
- Data loss due to overwritten.
- Damage Resulting from the Tape Drive.
- Damage due to exceed of warranty period.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures or humidity.
- Internal cartridge mechanism failure.
- Permanent errors exists in mid file.
- Tape reformatting.
- Tape overwritten.
- Tapes immersed in flood water.
- Snapped or burnt tapes.
Tape Cartridge Formats Supported:
- Quarter-Inch Cartridge (QIC) Media
- 3.5″ Cartridge Series – DC2000 (QIC 40 � 80 � 120 � 250 � 3020, etc.)
- 5.25″ Cartridge Series – DC600 � DC6000� DC9000 � Magnus 1.2
- Mini QIC / Travan
- SuperDLT Media
- Travan Media – TR1 � TR3 � TR4 � TR5
- Travan NS Network Series – NS8 � NS20
- 4mm Cartridges – 60M � 90M � 120M � 125M � 150M
- DAT DDS-1 � DDS-DC � DDS-2 � DDS-3 � DDS-4
- 8mm Cartridges – 54M � 112M � 160M � 160MXL
- DLT Media – DLT II � DLT III (10 / 20GB) � DLT IIIXT (15 / 30GB) � DLT IV (35 / 70GB)
Tape Media Formats and Manufacturers
- DLT III, DLT IV, DLT 1, VS80, VS160 & Super DLT tapes up to 320Gb capacity
- LTO 1, 2 Ultrium tapes up to 400Gb capacity
- 4mm DAT format DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3 & DDS-4 tapes up to 40Gb capacity
- Exabyte 8mm 112m and 160m tapes & Mammoth 1 (Exabyte 8900), Mammoth 2 up to 150Gb capacity
- Seagate AIT & AIT-2, AIT-3 tapes up to 260Gb capacity
- Travan TR-1, TR-3, TR-4 & TR-5 tapes up to 20Gb capacity
- Iomega Ditto 2Gb QIC tapes
- QIC Mini-Cartridges DC2000-DC2120 with 40, 80Mb & 250Mb capacity
Tape Backup and File Formats
- Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) applications such as NT Backup and Seagate/Veritas BackupExec for Windows NT/2000,
- Backup Exec for NetWareSystem Independent Data Format (SIDF) applications such as Novell’s Sbackup and Palindrome’s
- Backup Director Practically all legacy DOS and Windows backup formats, including Colorado Cheyenne Backup for Windows,
- Arcada/Seagate Backup Exec for Windows 95 & 98
- Cheyenne/Computer Associates ARCserve for NT & NetWare
- Previos/Stac Replica Backup for NT, NetWare
- Legato NetWorker (all platforms)
- Dantz Retrospect for Macintosh unix tar, cpio, fbackup, fsdump & ufsdump archives
- Compaq/DEC VMS Backup
- Intelliguard/Legato Budtools for UNIX platforms
- Sytron / Seagate / Veritas Sytos & Sytos Plus for DOS, NetWare OS/2
Need our services?
If you would like to find out more and speak to a member of The CyberTech team, then please get in touch. We’d be happy to help.