Tape Data Recovery? Is It Easy To Perform
There are many people that are both curious and skeptical on how can tape compete with their counterpart, harddisk drive. When the tape lost its data, it have to perform a tape data recovery immediately so as to prevent further losses that could have an negative impact on the business operations of organizations.
How can a tape cartridge be damaged? It can be damaged from smoke, dropping into the water, or simply just dropping from high levels. It can also be damaged from the exposure from the sun, extreme temperature, internal mechanism failure, and errors that are located found within the tape’s file span.
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 to the tape, a physical tape data recovery will then be required. It can be due to the damage done physically to the plastics, cartridge, or the tape itself from preventing the data to be read effectively.
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.
There are lots of companies or stores promise a high recovery rate from using physical recovery methods. They claimed that they have over 98 percent success rate of their recovery techniques.
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.
Logical 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 is when the data was successfully recorded on the tape, however for some unknown reasons, if it cannot be read. You have to quickly find a way to solve this issue. Also, it does not show any visible form of damage to the tape and the exterior of the tape itself.
The recovery of datafiles in logical recovery requires the expert professional to use multiple versions of the recovery software and take many “passes” at the tape using it.
You can easily pieced back the damage or lost tape data, but the rate of success of logical tape data recovery is much lower than physical tape recovery.