Understanding, Diagnosing, Recovering and Preventing Data Loss by Paul Korber
Data loss is a serious issue, which most businesses and individuals will encounter at some point in their digital lives. It can cripple businesses, ruin careers and generally cause a great deal of unnecessary stress. This article will attempt to generalize a strategy for dealing with such... In general it is always best to first consult a data recovery specialist, however this is dependent on the value of the data which has been threatened, Data recovery software essentially analyzes, repairs and recovers corrupted and/or lost data and assists in re-linking the information, which has...

Hard Drive Dead? Bring those Files Back from the Dead with the Help of a Data Recovery Service by Tony Roberts
How many times did you hear your colleague remind you to back up those files? Many times already! But did you listen? No. A thing such as data loss can never happen to you. Not with your brand new, shiny pc. But apparently you were wrong. The worse has happened and you didn’t expect it. ... Also a good number data recovery service offers a “no data – no payment policy”, in which they won’t charge you a single penny if the data recovery is not successful. ... In case you think your hard disk has suffered severe damage, stop your DIY data recovery and contact a data recovery service right away.

Coping with a Serious Data Loss from your Computer Hard Drive by Darryl Peddle
Data loss is an expensive reality. It's a hard fact that it happens more often then users like to admit. A recent study by the accounting firm McGladrey and Pullen estimates that one out of every 500 data centers will experience a severe computer disaster this year. ... (After eight weeks of painstaking directory-by-directory recovery, all the data from the remaining fifteen disks was retrieved.) Sometimes, the underlying cause of a data loss event is simply shoddy housekeeping. ... When significant data loss occurs, the IT specialist turns to the data recovery professional.

Consequences Of Data Loss And Why Should Offsite Backup Be Used by Lee Morrell
There is a calculated trend in all business corporations and firms: when the enterprise is getting bigger, its support of data increases its complexity, volume and value. The larger your enterprise is, the more significant your data files become. The traditional tape backup can no longer produce... Disaster recovery planning (DV) often fails to extract the lost files in the similar way as they were before the disaster struck. ... Some data that contains pieces of valuable information will be forever lost in the digital space, with no hope of getting it back.

What Is Data Recovery? by Pushkar Sinha
Retrieving deleted/inaccessible data from electronic storage media (hard drives, removable media etc...) Typical causes of data loss include: o Electro-mechanical Failure o Natural Disaster o Viruses o Data Corruption o Sabotage o Human Error Is Data Recovery important? ... “Fifty-five percent of small businesses rated themselves as "fair" or "poor" in terms of having a documented disaster recovery plan, or do not have one at all.” “Review and evaluation of data backup and storage procedures is not a common practice among small businesses.” “The majority of small companies”...

Backing Up Your Data to Prevent Losing It! by Jason Perry
Backing Up Your Data to Prevent Losing It! Developing a disaster prevention and recovery plan, often the most overlooked or outdated of any business plan, can be the difference between keeping your company in the black and closing your doors forever. ... While it is always a good idea to backup your critical data, if your data is stored at the same location as your server—and you experience a natural disaster, a fire or flood—the odds are that you will still require data recovery on the hard drives, or tape restoration to get your data restored.

Disaster Recovery Made Easy With Online Backups by Harald Anderson
Whenever disaster strikes the most critical asset that every company should have protected from sudden loss due to fire, flooding, or theft is their data. No matter what happens to your hardware you can be sure to be able to be up and running no matter how sudden or how severe your damage or... Online data back up is the most cost effective way for you to protect your investment by securely storing your data with an offsite data backup provider. ... There is nothing to remember when using a remote secure backup, you can just “set it and forget it” and be comfortable in knowing that your...

Data Loss and Preventative Measures to Avoid It by Brian Cain
Data Loss can be devastating. It could instantly take a small or medium size business from “Open for Business” to “Out of Business” in an instant. On a personal level, it can wipe away weeks, months and even years of critical data where there is no means of accessing or recreating the valuable... Hearing stories on a daily basis of data loss, I thought it to be only fair to share some of our preparations of how we (as a Data Recovery Lab) survived as a business, and had basically no loss of business continuity.

The Art of Failure Planning by Glen Kendell
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon A Tale of Two Plans There is a lot of talk these days about disaster recovery planning. Organizations of all sizes are investing big money developing "The Plan" that will help... The Art of Failure Planning If you are a big organization, you have to face the reality that a true disaster recovery plan needs to look more like Plan B than Plan A. ... Yet disaster recovery planning is problematic.

The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups by Keith Edmunds
Backups of company data are carried out for two main reasons. The first is to cater for those times when a document is inadvertently deleted or damaged and you wish to recover the original document; the second is as part of a disaster recovery plan in case something catastrophic happens to your... Test the recovery procedure periodically Without warning, give the backup recovery manual to a member of staff and see how long it takes them to recover data. ... Produce a "backup recovery" manual A major disaster is not the time to try to remember how to recover data from your backup media.