Who Said Tape Was Not Reliable?

Posted by Mark on Oct 23, 2008

Another tape recovery story, but one that shows an impressive level of resilience on the part of an old tape technology. The tape in question was a TK50, leading edge back sometime in the 1980s (and notably the technology from which DLT was developed) and after 20 years of being used each day as the boot media for a manufacturing system it had finally given up and a data recovery was needed.
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Do you need to use a professional data recovery service?

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

I’ll make no bones about it, I work for a data recovery company and believe that a good and professional data recovery service is often the best course of action. However, it is not always economically viable, and I am aware of cases where people have gone down the paid route and had a simple problem dealt with for rather a lot of money.
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Once you are in a hole it is time to stop digging

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

“There is just one more thing we want to try” has sometimes been the sentence that I have heard from the other end of the phone immediately prior to some data being lost to this world forever.

This is not a plug for using data recovery companies, I work for one and don’t believe that it is always the best option, but it is a good idea to emulate the calm and measured approach that a professional would take.
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