TRACS (Tape Restoration and Cataloging System) is the core engine for backup tape interrogation built from the ground up by S2|DATA. It is a single tool that performs tape restoration from every backup format that has been deciphered by our engineers, and enables great flexibility when tackling tapes of unknown origin. This is especially beneficial when tape restoration work is performed outside of a S2|DATA data center. It is fast, flexible and feature rich, enabling different levels of investigation into backups, such as Header Scans, Session Scans, Exchange-only restores, Mailbox identifiers, file-level catalog scans, targeted file restoration, and much more. Currently handling over 25 core backup formats, it is continuously being added to and handles single instance, multi-threaded tapes, and even RAIT/Striped backup tape sets.

TRACS also exports Invenire load files, which gives users real-time uploads and faster time-to-data for urgent projects. TRACS can create image files of tape volumes (details below) the functionality resulting from these are ideal when remediating data and performing defensible deletions, but also for massive consolidation of large tape pools, such as those that might be stored in offsite archives.