Tape Data Recovery Services
Recovery from any type of computer backup tape
Altirium provide data recovery services for any type of computer backup tape, current or obsolete. From problems with LTO, AIT or DLT cartridges, right back to TK50 data cartridges and 9-track open reel tapes, your data can be recovered.
Physical damage, overwrites or data corruption
A tape might be snapped, creased, water or fire damaged, or the data on it corrupted so that the data cannot be read. Even if your backup software cannot identify the data on the tape, Altirium can and will recover your data.
Any backup format, current or obsolete
Whichever backup application wrote the data to the tape, your data can be recovered. Whether it is last night's ARCserve or Backup Exec backup, or a Sytos or QicStream backup from 1992, Altirium can recover your data.
Altirium's Tape Data Recovery Service
Tape as a data storage medium has been with us for many years, and will be for many more. It is a robust and durable data storage medium, more than capable of securing your data for many years, but things can still go wrong.
If a tape is damaged by fire, or immersed in flood water for a protracted time, then it might no longer be possible to read the data from it. If the drive or tape mechanism fails and the tape becomes snagged by its own casing or part of the tape drive mechanism then, at best, attempts to read any data will fail, at worst any further attempt you make to recover data will result in the damage being made worse and cause greater data loss.
Logical problems such as corruption of backups, or the loss of a tape from a backup set can be equally as serious. If the backup application does not recognise the data it reads from the tape or it requires tape one but you only have tape two then any restoration attempt will fail. Worse still, if the backup tape has not been write protected and a scheduled backup manages to write data to the start of the tape you could have many gigabytes of data rendered inaccessible within a split second.
Altirium's tape recovery engineers have been successfully recovering data from tapes for many years and have dealt with each of the problems detailed above and a whole lot more. You can contact Altirium at any time of day or night and, even if you are not entirely certain as to the precise cause of the problem with your restoration, one of our tape engineers will be happy to give you advice and assistance.
