Tape Data Recovery

Disk Doctors provide tape data recovery services from damaged and corrupted tape drives and backups. Disk Doctors are experts in provide tape data recovery services and supports the following:

DLT
LTO
DAT
DDS
AIT
Travan
Iomega
QIC

Disk Doctors experts provide tape recovery regardless of OS, Type of tape and Backup Software.

Tape Data Recovery capabilities include:

DLT III, DLT IV, DLT-1 and Super DLT tapes up to 220GB capacity LTO Ultrium tapes up to 200GB capacity 4mm DAT format DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3 and DDS-4 tapes up to 40GB capacity Exabyte 8mm 112m and 160m tapes and Mammoth (Exabyte 8900) up to 40GB capacity Seagate AIT, AIT-2, AIT3, and SAIT tapes Travan TR-1, TR-3, TR-4 and TR-5 tapes up to 20GB capacity IomegaR Ditto 2GB QIC tapes QIC Mini-Cartridges DC2000-DC2120 with 40, 80MB and 250MB capacity Situations which we have handled:

Failures due to faulty header
Snapped or stretched tape
Damage due to fire or water
Contamination and Damage of Media Surface Backup Software Corruption Accidental formatting of partitions Accidental files deletion

Tape data recovery process at Disk Doctors:

An initial diagnosis on the tape is performed to determine if there are any damaged cartridge components and the extent of physical damage caused.

Recoveries from physical cases involve respooling, splicing and cleaning healthy segments of tape into new carriers with the help of specialized tools and techniques. Special tools and customized hardware and software are used to create a raw image from the tape.

Logical recovery utilizes the image by examining data sectors and later fixes to tape format structures are decided to make important data accessible.

On successful recovery information is supplied to the client in the media desired.