Catch-22, or “don’t keep the only copy of the software on the tape”

Posted by Mark on Oct 20, 2008

Ever had one of those days where having tried to do everything correctly that nasty stomach churning feeling becomes overwhelming as you realise that there is a major problem and a simple restore could now be a major tape data recovery issue.

You have the backup tape, you have the tape drives, but the only copy of the backup software is within a backup set on the tape and this backup is from 14 years ago and the software is not sold any more.
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Altirium launch improved optical media data recovery service

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

Optical media (DVD, CD, MO disk) tend to fall at the lower end of the data recovery service market in that the the costs for recovery cannot always be justified even though with some problems the work required far outstrips that for a hard disk or tape recovery.
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