Tape Copying

December 5, 2008

When you have backed up meticulously every day for the last five years, then you find that the only time you require to restore the backup, you find that the tape wont let you because of a tape error.

So what can you do. There are many software options for backup data recovery, but nearly all of these only work on backup files, so how do you recover data from a tape?

Data Recovery Engineering Software Limited write software mainly for data recovery companies, and one of their titles is a very cost effective tape copying tool.

The software reads the tape and creates a file dump to hard disk. Now you can access the data on the tape and recover it with your backup recovery software.

Another use for the software is when someone has made a backup that you need the data from, but it is password protected (not encrypted) and the user cant remember the password or no longer works for the company. Or a forensics engineer needs to look at the data stored on the tape but does not have access to the software used to create the backup.

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