Tape Data Recovery

When tape storage media fails, Kroll Ontrack has solutions to extract and recover your valuable backups. Kroll Ontrack has a large inventory of tape drives to read your tape media. If your media has an obsolete archive format, don't worry, Ontrack Data Recovery engineers have the experience and the resources required to search, extract, and recover your data.

Kroll Ontrack has rescued data from the following scenarios involving tape media:

• Overwritten tapes (including DLT)
• Quick-erased or partially overwritten data from LTO (Ultrium) tape media
• Snapped or burnt tapes
• Tapes damaged by chemicals and smoke
• Software problems or backup failures
• Tapes immersed in flood water
• Intentional or accidental physical damage

Tape Recovery Options for Backups and Archives

There is more to recovering data from backups and archives than just reading from older tape media storage. The tape recovery process is uniquely designed by Kroll Ontrack engineers to extract data from any type of media storage. The range of tape media types Kroll Ontrack can recover from is the most comprehensive in the industry. With over 50,000 recoveries each year, let the data recovery engineers of Kroll Ontrack catalogue, extract, and recover your data; regardless of backup formats.

Kroll Ontrack also provides these additional tape management services:

• Backup consolidation
• Data deduplication
• Tape indexing and cataloguing
• Tape replication
• Backup media and tape disposal

Data recovery solutions for any tape media

Here is a partial list of common tape drive vendors and media.

If you do not see your brand of tape drive or tape media listed, then contact a data service representative at Kroll Ontrack to discuss your specific recovery options. In addition, custom development is available for unique or proprietary backup archives systems.