{"id":13398,"date":"2024-08-21T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/datashred\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:05:32","slug":"tape-data-erasure-leave-no-trace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/datashred\/tape-data-erasure-leave-no-trace\/","title":{"rendered":"Tape data erasure: leave no trace"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Using magnetic tape as the primary element of a backup and disaster recovery programme may sound old hat, what with Cloud storage and all, but it is still a current technology for many organisations.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\n
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You may have billions of bytes of data stored off site as your insurance policy against disaster or archived for compliance with your retention policy. And why not? Tapes of varying formats have huge capacity, are economical and, if stored professionally, offer unparalleled security and longevity.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they\u2019re so long-lived, why retire them?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you use tape as a part of your data retention and protection policy you will, no doubt, have compliant retirement as the end game of that policy. This could come after a specific number of passes or be set up on a strict rotation basis to preserve data integrity \u2013 whatever suits your organisation\u2019s needs and usage patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve bothered to back up data, keep it safe on tapes off site, under the correct conditions, we\u2019re certain that you will be keen to complete the correct procedures for full data protection compliance, which means total destruction at the end of your tapes\u2019 lifecycle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the only way to guarantee that level of data erasure is through <\/span>tape shredding<\/span><\/a>, literally chopping the tape into tiny fragments, which makes all data irrefutably unrecoverable. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What to look for in a tape shredding service provider<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Not all shredders are the same. Here are the qualities and hard facts that qualify a professional shredding company to shred your obsolete magnetic tapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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