Incorporate A Disaster Recovery Plan by Alexander Eiriksson
Nordural ehf's backup system needed to incorporate a Disaster Recovery plan that would reduce the backup window from ten hours to two-three hours. A Disaster Recovery Plan is a coordinated activity to enable the recovery of IT/business systems due to a disruption. ... SecurStore also provided Nordural with the option of assigning which data is 'critical; and which is 'important' data by using Long Term Storage with the use of Backup Lifecycle Management system that manages data during all backing up and archiving processes.

Sea-Front or Action-gate by Richard Myers
June 25, 2005 Seagate Technologies’ web site now indicates the company offers data recovery services. Further investigation shows the shipping address, the place to send your subject drive for data recovery service, actually belongs to ActionFront Data Recovery. ... Why would Seagate need, or want, to align themselves with any data recovery service company? ... Some may feel that this union brings a certain amount of legitimacy to the data recovery service industry. ... Hence, the birth of the data recovery service industry.

The Human Side of Data Loss! by Usman Qureshi
Data loss is a bitter reality. Individuals and almost all types of businesses are confronting with it. You never know when it’s your turn of being a witness of a severe data loss. It is observed that there are a number of causes of losing your important data. ... Sometimes, the unknown experimentation of humans to recovery data by re-booting the system again and again and even worst of this happens when they try different recovery utilities to retrieve their data. ... Human intervention in early stages of data loss can make data recovery process more complicated rather just impossible in...

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Hot Sites, Warm Sites, and Disaster Recovery by Chris Bryant
Part of passing the Network+ exam and being an outstanding network administrator is being prepared for disaster. Sometimes that's a disaster on a relatively small scale, such as a drive failure. If you're running data backups on a regular basis (and you are, aren't you?), you're prepared for... If you're not the person in charge of network disaster recovery, find out who is and ask if any of these sites are being kept by your company. ... Disaster recovery is taken to the next level by preparing a cold site, warm site, or hot site at another physical location.

Hard Drive Crash? The Essential Data Recovery Report by Greg Duffield
Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout "you should have backed that stuff up" The voice keeps echoing throughout your head as you perform a quick inventory all of the important information that you just lost…..your... However, just because a company with a fancy website quotes you $3,500 for data recovery, does not mean that they are any better than a company that quotes you $1,500. ... The data recovery market is quickly becoming saturated, and a company does not necessarily cheapen itself or lack expertise by...

I Deleted A File - It Happens To Everyone by Fraser Wheaton
If I had a penny every time my less technical friends or family members told me “oops, I accidentally deleted a file” I’d certainly be richer by a few thousand pennies. Accidental file deletion is usually attributed to computer novices, but saying they are the only ones it can happen to would be... You have several data recovery options, including trying to get the data back using your operating system’s standard recovery tools (if any), buying a data recovery program or employing a professional data recovery company, in case you don’t want to take the risk in your own hands.

Hard Drive Data Recovery by Mac McClellan
Hard drive data recovery is the method of recovering data from hard drives when it cannot be accessed in the normal manner. This failure to access the hard drive could be caused by logical damage to the file system or any physical damage that had occurred to the storage device, thereby... Some of the main contexts where hard drive data recovery software could save one from the blues include a formatted drive, deleted file or directory, missing file or directory, drive not booting, inaccessible drive, copying of system locked files like registry hives, damaged or corrupted partition table,...

How to Prevent External Hard Drive Failure by Andrea Stone
A method of data storage that has become increasingly popular is the use of external hard drives. Home computer users today have more data than ever, and many find that the storage capacity of their computer's hard drive is not sufficient. As the usage of external hard drives increases, there is... Contact a Data Recovery Company If You Have Experienced External Hard Drive Failure If the data on the hard drive is worth preserving, you can contact a data recovery company to recover the data. ... A data recovery lab can repair or replace the damaged internal parts of the hard disk and...

Lessons From Katrina - Does Your Business Have an Adequate Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mike Makler
The Hurricane Katrina Disaster has lessons for all business owners. Now is a Good time to look over your Disaster recovery plan and see if it would survive a Hurricane Katrina Type Disaster. You may be surprised how easy and cheap it is to have a Disaster Recovery Plan that will protect your... Keeping Data in an Off Site Local location is still a good idea so you can have fast access to your data and recover from small disasters like fire or theft that only effect your location. ... If you run your business off a computer or even a server then an offsite back-up of key customer and vendor...

Why You Should Back Your Data Up by Jessica Cander
Have you ever lost an important file on your computer? It is a very annoying feeling, which above the emotional factor involved can have far-reaching consequences if it was a valuable file. Every business and individual will most likely experience the loss of some amount of stored data on their... Two main types of data recovery exist; they are what are known as “logical recovery” and “physical recovery”. ... Latching on to the fact that so many people elect not to (or forget to) back up their data, a multitude of data recovery companies and computer experts have turned the act of...