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 find that the tape wont let you 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 dumping tool.
The software reads the tape and creates a file dump to hard disk. Now you are able access the data on the tape and recover it with your backup recovery software.
Other uses are 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 no longer works for 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.
