Tape Drive Data Recovery DLTtape™, DAT, DDS, LTO, Ditto™, and Travan Tape Drive Data Recovery Home » Data Recovery FAQs » Recovery Capabilities » Tape Drive Recovery Tape Data Recovery is most commonly associated with damage due to fires, floods, or other physical damage to a disk or drive. However, Iomega® offers solutions to many other common (and not so common) causes of data loss. Take a look at the different solutions we offer:

Causes of Data Loss in Tape Drive Backup Systems

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Supported Tape Data Recovery Formats

• DLT III, DLT IV, DLT-1 and Super DLT tapes up to 220GB capacity
  
  
• LTO Ultrium tapes up to 200GB capacity
  
  
• 4mm DAT format DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3 and DDS-4 tapes up to 40GB capacity
  
  
• Exabyte 8mm 112m and 160m tapes and Mammoth (Exabyte 8900) up to 40GB capacity
  
  
• Seagate AIT and AIT-2 tapes up to 100GB capacity
  
  
• Travan TR-1, TR-3, TR-4 and TR-5 tapes up to 20GB capacity
  
  
• Iomega® Ditto 2GB QIC tapes
  
  
• QIC Mini-Cartridges DC2000-DC2120 with 40, 80MB and 250MB capacity

Supported Backup Files/Formats

• Dantz Retrospect for Macintosh
  
  
• Cheyenne/Computer Associates ARCserve for NT and NetWare
  
  
• Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) applications such as NT Backup and Seagate/VERITAS BackupExec for Windows NT/2000, Backup Exec for NetWare
  
  
• System Independent Data Format (SIDF) applications such as Novell's Sbackup and Palindrome's Backup Director
  
  
• Practically all legacy DOS and Windows backup formats, including Colorado/Cheyenne Backup for Windows, Arcada/Seagate Backup Exec for Windows 95 and 98
  
  
• Previos/Stac Replica Backup for NT, NetWare
  
  
• Legato NetWorker (all platforms)
  
  
• UNIX TAR, CPIO, FBACKUP, FSDUMP and UFSDUMP archives
  
  
• Compaq/DEC VMS Backup
  
  
• Intelliguard/Legato Budtools for Unix platforms
  
  
• Sytron/Seagate/VERITAS SYTOS & SYTOS Plus for DOS, NetWare and OS/2

Iomega's Data Recovery Process for Tape Backup Systems

• Initial diagnosis determines whether the media is accessible to our lab equipment. If so, the first priority is to create a raw image of the data on our tape or drive media so that logical analysis can determine the nature of the data loss situation. If the media is inaccessible our lab will test the cartridge components to determine the extent of physical damage.
  
  
• Recovery of damaged tape media often involves cleaning, splicing & respooling healthy segments of tape into new carriers using specialized tools. Specially configured tape drives using customized hardware and software tools are used to create a raw image from whatever portions of tape that are readable.
  
  
• Logical recovery uses the raw image by examining the low-level data sectors and determining what fixes to tape format structures are needed to get access to the important data. Sometimes the existing structures are missing or damaged so much that data has to be extracted directly from the raw image.
  
  
• Our programmers have created a full set of software data recovery tools used by our technicians to analyze, fix & recover data from raw tape images. Once a recovery has been successfully performed, file lists are created and data validity is checked.

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