TAPE DATA RECOVERY
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Tape Storage Services
As data recovery experts, it’s our job to know how to restore, migrate, and catalog data from any tape type or format. Here are some ways our team can help your business:
Tape restoration and auditing
Following strict security protocols, our certified engineers can restore any type of tape media, safely recovering sensitive data. And our tape audit service will let you know whether your data is readily accessible, providing insight into what has been kept beyond the retention period..
Data migration on and off-site
Choose any tape format or backup system for our experts to migrate your data. Our data migration and data copying services can be requested to be done on-site or off-site.
Data copying and cataloging
Archiving tape data may seem like a tough job, especially if it's been around for a while. Let us organize your legacy information and make it easier to manage.
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Fill out the form to get a free in-lab evaluation of your tape media to determine recoverability.
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Data recovery FAQ
Learn the data recovery solution, cost, process, and security measures for complete data recovery.
Linear Tape-Open is a magnetic type tape storage. It has maximum encryption technology guaranteeing high-level data protection.
The worldwide-known brand for data storage tapes, IBM tapes help businesses to simplify data management and increase data security.
Quarter Inch Cartridge is a magnetic tape that has been around since 1972. Businesses often use QIC for long-term data storage, since it has a low cost. But it also has a low storage capacity.
Digital Audio Tape is a data storage tape technology that offers reliable, cost-effective, direct-attached backup that easily meets the needs of businesses. It has great storage capacity and efficiency for backup.
These tapes have the lowest cost and are connected directly to a computer’s diskette controller. Their data can suffer accidental deletion, but they are still a secure way to save data.
The D-eight tape is usually used for backup data. Although a reliable choice for data storage, it has limited capacity, going around 60GB.
QIC and DAT are common examples of a 4mm data tape. They are greatly used for backups due to their cost-effectiveness and security.
WORM stands for Write Once Read Many. A tape data storage with this function cannot be modified once it’s written. This write protection ensures that the data cannot be changed once it’s saved to the device.
How Tape Data Recovery works
Tape data recovery is the process of recovering data from a tape drive or other tape-based storage device. This can include physical damage to the tape media itself, logical damage to the data format, or corruption of the data due to a hardware or software failure.
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Get your data recovered in a ISO-certified laboratory and highly-rated professionals with years of experience in secure data recovery.
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TAPE RECOVERY QUESTIONS
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Based on the size of data restored from your tape data storage, we can send it to a new external media, or send it via download. Data download limitations are 50 GB for economy service, 100 GB for expedited, and 500 GB for an emergency.
Yes. Before proceeding with any payments, you will be provided with a list of the data we were able to retrieve for review and approval.
Yes. Whenever our engineers need to physically open the media during recovery, we employ our certified ISO-5 cleanroom.
With more than a decade of experience, SalvageData can boast over 90% successful recovery rate on tape storage media.
In case your tape storage is found to be unrestorable, you will be given the choice to either safely dispose of the device, or have it returned by mail. The cost of return shipping is at the customer's expense.
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