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As this is the information age, most firms use other forms of media to store their valuable data. However, there is one form called the tape drive that are still used by many organizations worldwide. The notion of tape data recovery still entails mystery and how it is to be done. This type of recovery is to recover any data that has been lost on a tape.

Even with a solid plastic casing protect the tape within, the tape cartridge like any other storage devices, can be damaged from smoke, water, or dropping the cartridge from high levels. Extreme exposure to high temperatures, its internal mechanism of the tape might fails, thus causing errors located within the tape’s surface.

There are various cases of damages namely from water damage, missing oxide, folds in the tape, blade damage, bad oxide or even frictional damage, when tape data are being recovered. The fact that there are 2 types of tape data recovery, physical and logical recovery. Read on to find out more how you too can engage in the recovery techniques, if you are using tape as a storage medium.

What is needed for a physical tape recovery?

When there is a physical damage on the tape, a physical tape recovery is applicable. Physical damage such as cartridge crack, tape damage, failure in the internal mechanism of the tape and etc may prevents the data from being read efficiently.

Another reason for physical recovery can be due to the deterioration of magnetic coatings on the actual tape surface, broken or cracked wheels, twisted or folded tape, creased tape edges, broken tape, stretched tape, and etc.

Some trained technicians that are dealing in tape recovery guarantee a high recovery rate as high as 98 percent. With such high success rate, it is obvious they know what they are doing and are very good at what they do. Do you agree?

When you have dropped your tape into mud, water or simply dropped from high levels, and felt that there could be some damaged done to the tape. It is important to get the tape to those recovery companies and get them repair as soon as possible.

Can logical recovery help in tape data recovery?

Did you know that logical tape data recovery is more expensive due to it complexity and lots of process to take note.

We need logical recovery when the data is unable to read or write even though it has been successfully recorded onto the tape itself. Or there are no visible form of damage to the tape and the tape body itself.

The recovery process requires the technician to use multiple versions of tape recovery software.

It is quite normal to retrieve back the lost tape data, but the success rate of using logical recovery methods is much lower than using physical recovery methods.