What It Is

As this is the information age, most firms use other forms of media to store their valuable data. However, there is one form called the tape drive that are still used by many organizations worldwide. The notion of tape data recovery still entails mystery and how it is to be done. This type of recovery is to recover any data that has been lost on a tape.

Although the tape cartridge is a piece of durable storage media, it can still be damaged from smoke, water, or simply dropping it to the ground. It’s life span can be shortened by extreme exposure from high temperature, internal failure mechanism, or sector-errors that are situated right in the middle of the tape’s life.

Tape data can been recovered from damages caused by water, missing and bad oxide, sliced edges, and even friction damage. These data are recovered using 2 types of recovery methods, namely physical recovery and logical recovery. Read more to understand these recovery methods can help you to maintain your data effectively.

What is actually physical tape data recovery?

When there is a physical damage to the tape, a physical tape data recovery will then be required. It can be due to the damage done physically to the plastics, cartridge, or the tape itself from preventing the data to be read effectively.

Another reason for physical recovery can be due to the deterioration of magnetic coatings on the actual tape surface, broken or cracked wheels, twisted or folded tape, creased tape edges, broken tape, stretched tape, and etc.

Some trained technicians that are dealing in tape recovery guarantee a high recovery rate as high as 98 percent. With such high success rate, it is obvious they know what they are doing and are very good at what they do. Do you agree?

If you thought you have damaged your tape storage media by accidentally dropped it in the mud, water or simply from high level, then you should immediately stopped what you are doing and head to those tape recovery offices so that those recovery professionals can help you.

Logical recovery

Due to its complicated procedures, logical tape data recovery is much more expensive in most cases.

We need logical recovery when the data is unable to read or write even though it has been successfully recorded onto the tape itself. Or there are no visible form of damage to the tape and the tape body itself.

In order for the technician to execute the recovery procedures properly, he has to use multiple versions of the tape recovery software and take many “passes” at the tape using it.

You can easily pieced back the damage or lost tape data, but the rate of success of logical tape data recovery is much lower than physical tape recovery.