Creating An Image Of A Tape,

Posted on timeNovember 17th, 2008 by userAdvisor


When you have backed up meticulously every day for the last 5 years, then you find that when you need the backup, you find that the tape wont load 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 affordable tape imaging tool.

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

Another use for the software is when someone has created a backup set that you need to access, but it is password protected (not encrypted) and the user cant remember the password or left the company. Or a forensics examiner needs to look at the data stored on the tape but does not have access to the software used to create the backup.

Creating an Image of a Tape

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