Creating An Image Of A Tape,
When you have backed up every single night for the last five years, then you find that when you need the backup, you find that the tape wont load 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 affordable tape imaging tool.
The software creates an image file of the data on the tape 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 engineer needs to look at the data stored on the tape but does not have access to the software used to create the backup.