1.   And your long-gone e-mails might still be alive, on a backup tape at your Internet service provider.

2.   Blando declined to say if there was a backup tape.

3.   Both the data and the scanned images are recorded at the processing centers onto two backup tapes, which are stored in different locations.

4.   E-mail messages that are deleted can still exist on a computer hard drive, server or backup tape and be retrieved later.

5.   It also makes computer floppy disks, computer backup tapes and color proofers for the graphics industry.

6.   It makes computer storage products such as diskettes and backup tapes as well as imaging products such as X-ray film.

7.   It makes products such as computer diskettes and backup tapes as well as imaging products such as X-ray film.

8.   Magnetic media like hard discs, Zip discs or backup tapes are less reliable but viable options.

9.   Still, these messages were recovered and included as evidence because a low-level White House employee decided not to overwrite backup tapes.

10.   They survive, for example, on the backup tapes of corporate networks, and can easily be downloaded and searched.