When you have backed up meticulously every day for the last 5 years, then you find that the only time you require to restore the backup, you discover the tape wont load because of a tape error.
So what can you do. There are several software options for backup data recovery, but most 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 cost effective tape copying tool.
The software creates an image file of the data on the tape to hard disk. Now you can 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.
written by DavePF