Tape Data Recovery

Data can be inaccessible from tape for reasons including media damage, partial overwriting, backup set corruption, and water or fire damage. Backup tape is a robust data storage medium from which data can almost always be recovered.

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Hard Drive Data Recovery

Hard disk drive problems can range from minor electronic “glitches” through to major head crashes. Data can be recovered under most circumstances, with usually only the most extreme crashes resulting in total data loss.

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Other Data Recovery Services

Data storage is not just hard drive and tape, there is also CD, DVD, USB pen, Optical Disk and a plethora of solid state devices such as CompactFlash, Memory Stick and XD. Data loss can result from physical damage, recording problems and file deletions.

Nor is data recovery just about the storage media. Data can be lost within a corrupted MS Exchange Information Store, SQL database, or any other organised data structure.

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Data Conversion

As data storage evolves so keeping up with techology can be a problem. A tape might be certified for 40 years data storage, but this will not be much help if a drive is no longer available or your computing platform changed a few years back and so a restore can no longer be made.

There are a wide range of options for data conversion services from transferring data to newer formats of tape through to the provision of call-off contracts for on-demand restorations from legacy media and storage formats.

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Data Migration

Data migration services overlap with data conversion, but also include the large scale processing of data from tape archives. Data Migration includes processes to upgrade to newer storage formats, to reduce the duplication of data withing and archive and to categorise data by date or other criteria to assist with regulatory compliance and governance requirements.

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Computer Forensics & Litigation Support

Tape archives are a valuable source of information during computer data investigations, data can be deleted from hard disks but often still exists with in the system backups which provide a snapshot of data across a wide range of times.

Restoration of an entire archive in order to located a few mailboxes or spreadheets is not always practicable, and rarely economically viable. Tapes can be scanned quickly and a picture deriived of the data stored across the archive, then processed to restore only that data that is required.

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