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Tape Services

Tape Data Recovery Experts

Managing archived data is critical to reducing risk and cost in your enterprise.

With over 30 years of data recovery heritage, Ontrack’s tape services team provides clients peace of mind when accessing legacy data on tapes and virtual backup environments.

Our proprietary tools allow us to read and recover data from any tape type, regardless of backup method and infrastructure.

Tape Data Recovery Experts

A trusted tape services provider.

With Ontrack's tape services you can respond to time-sensitive restore requirements, save on archiving costs, reduce the risk of retaining uncompliant data and keep legacy data accessible.

By trusting us to help manage your legacy data, you will not only be able to quickly react to requests, achieve compliance with GDPR, better manage what data you keep and where you store it, but also reduce storage and maintenance costs.

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Gray-Tape Services 1 We Recovery

We recover from any tape media.

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DLT

IBM

STK

QIC

8mm

4mm

9 Track

Custom Tape Services

Auditing

Find out if your data is physically accessible with the Ontrack tape audit service. We can also provide visibility on what has been stored past its retention period.

Cataloguing

Organising archive tape data can often seem like a daunting task. Let us catalogue your legacy data efficiently and make it easier for you to manage.

Migration

Whether you're switching IT service provider or found that your tape formats are no longer supported, Ontrack can help migrate your tape data to an alternative format.

Restoration

Ontrack can help you quickly retrieve granular information from your tape archives ensuring you are able to comply with legal and compliance requests.

Tape Services Process Overview

Join over a half million people and businesses who have trusted Ontrack to recover their data.

Ontrack consultation

Consult

Complimentary Consultation
With 24/7/365 phone support, our data recovery experts will assess your needs and discuss options.
Evaluate

Evaluate

Proof of Concept
Sample tape restoration is provided to validate service expectations.
Recover data

Recover

Tape Processing
Client approves the project and tapes are processed according to client requirements.
Return

Return

Project Completion
Data is securely returned via FTP or on encrypted media.

Tape service case studies

30 September 2024 07:47:11 EDT

Emergency Recovery for School District with Large Tape Backup

The customer A metropolitan US school district The challenge The school district containing 165 schools was shut down by

16 August 2024 13:48:35 EDT

Onsite Forensic Backup tape restore for internal investigation

The Situation The client was confronted with a product liability issue that led to an internal investigation involving p

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Benefits of leveraging Ontrack's tape services team

IT Department Benefits:

  • Reduce expenses associated with managing and storing backup tapes
  • Consolidate backup infrastructure, decreasing hardware, software and storage needs
  • Improve responsiveness and reduced involvement of IT staff during eDiscovery, internal investigations and regulatory requests orders
  • Access to damaged tapes (reformatted, overwritten, broken)

Legal Department Benefits:

  • Organisation of important data for compliance and regulatory needs, including GDPR
  • Decreased eDiscovery, internal investigation and regulatory request costs through smaller, more manageable data volumes
  • Faster response time if data retrieval request orders arise

Why choose Ontrack tape services?

Supporting All Types and Formats

Supporting All Types and Formats

Ontrack develops proprietary software for tape restoration and data recovery, meaning that we can ensure your tape data is always accessible, even when the legacy environment is no longer available.

Quick data recovery

When Time Is of the Essence

IT departments can be faced with cumbersome restorations when responding to time sensitive requests. Depend on Ontrack to quickly recover and produce information on tapes and virtual backup environments.

State-of-the-Art Security

State-of-the-Art Security

Data in our possession is secured by the most advanced data security and disaster recovery technology available. Our data centers are ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC Type II certified and GDPR, HIPAA, and CPRA compliant.

Solving Complex Data Challenges

Solving Complex Data Challenges

As an integrated KLDiscovery business, Ontrack has a network of professionals with expertise spanning the information governance and eDiscovery spectrum to support the litigation, investigation and compliance needs of our clients.

Tape Services FAQs

I need to convert my tapes to another format. What do I need to consider?

Let the specialists at Ontrack take care of the job for you. We have established processes for every kind of tape-related service, and provide cost and time-effective conversion.

Tape service blogs

12 September 2019 00:00:00 EDT

Tips to future proof your legacy tape archive

Migrating storage is getting easier thanks to centrally managed storage. The problem comes when you suddenly discover th

24 October 2018 00:00:00 EDT

Tape: the ultimate storage solution?

The tape has been the storage media of choice for long-term archiving since the 1950’s. Why? Because it’s a reliable, lo

01 July 2016 00:00:00 EDT

Step by step guide to a tape migration

What does a typical tape migration process look like? There is no standard tape migration project as every project is di

19 April 2016 00:00:00 EDT

Virtualised tape library - the silver bullet of business continuity?

Virtualisation continues to grow in popularity as it offers different ways of backing up our data, in addition to being

12 February 2016 00:00:00 EST

Why Magnetic Tape Storage is still popular options today

What is magnetic tape storage? Tape drives are one of the earliest data storage device mediums that can read and write d

08 January 2016 00:00:00 EST

How to manage and restore tape drives

Tape backup has always been traditionally viewed as a cost-effective and reliable platform for storing corporate data of

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