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...

Electronic Data Discovery by Marcus Peterson
In the electronic age, huge amounts of data are being generated and stored electronically. Everyday, millions of electronic data pages are being created, transferred and stored in multiple locations. Most of this data is very valuable and critical, especially for businesses. ... The process of electronic data discovery involves some stages: generation of the inventory list; generation of the list of required data that is to be discovered; creation of validation tools and checklists; data retrieval using special software tools; and validation of the data.

Remote Backup as Part of a Disaster Recovery Strategy by Mike Colesante
New technologies and recent storm reports have forced many companies to review disaster recovery plans and data protection policies. Hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast and Eastern seashore have a significant impact on the businesses operating in their path. ... Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - The time objective to bring the system back on line following a failure Recovery Point Objective (RPO) - The acceptable amount of data loss from the last good backup prior to the point of failure Identify potential data loss events that can happen to your business.

What is Electronic Evidence Discovery? by Jason Perry
Electronic Discovery (or E-Discovery) refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. Electronic Discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done... Once a data audit has been completed and a computer forensics or data recovery service implemented, then there are the tasks to process the electronic evidence and produce the electronic evidence in a format which the client and lawyers will accept, such as TIFFs or PDFs.

Backup and Recovery for Smaller Organisations--How to Build an Effective Data Backup Strategy by Lee Morrell
There are many factors which will potentially determine your best data backup strategy. Regardless of your companies size the thought process should be the same. The main factors to take into account are the amount of data being backed up, how quickly you need to backup and more importantly, how... When you have answered the above, you are in a position to prepare a data backup and data recovery assessment which will addresses the following details: 1) What data needs protection? ... Building a Data Protection Strategy All data protection strategies contain three parts: the backup...

Let Your Hard Drive Cool by Vitali Priadkine
No matter what we do with our computer, storage is an important part of our system. Nowadays, we have been holding more and more information on our PC. Most computer users no longer keep their documents, letters, music, photos, pictures, etc. in hard copies, but store them on different data... There are data loss situations when even the most advanced data recovery companies can’t guarantee that you will receive you data back. ... Of course, when you lose your data, you think less about the causes of its loss, but more about the data, itself.

Hard Disk Failure and Data Recovery by Bharat Bista
Hard Disk: An Introduction Hard disk is a non-volatile data storage device that stores electronic data on a magnetic surface layered onto hard disk platters. Word Hard is use to differentiate it from a soft, or floppy disk. Hard disks hold more data and can store from 10 to more than 100... Hard Disk Data Recovery: Hard disk data recovery is the process of recovering the trapped data from the damage hard disk device, when it can not be accessed in normal circumstance. ... This sort of crash usually invites severe data loss and unprofessional data recovery attempts results further...

Local Vs Remote Data Backup - The Pros And Cons by Niall Roche
Backing up your data should be an essential part of your daily routine. Unfortunately for many businesses this simply isn't the case. The only time data backup crosses their mind is when they have a hard disk crash or a serious spyware or virus infection. ... That's not to say that bulk data such as archived email is not important but that old data could be recovered in time by a data recovery specialist whereas you mission critical data needs to be available at a moments notice. ... In the case of any data being lost it's simply a matter of restoring the data from a previous backup point...

Natural Disaster Causes 3% of Data Loss by Park Oskar
Natural Disasters is the least likely cause of data loss however they can kill an entire company. The eruption of natural disasters and the complete equipment failure are rare but they do occur. Although it accounts for around 3% of all data loss but the magnitude of data loss is highest. ... There are many data recovery software & services companies, which provide data recovery from fire damages. ... • Do not store your mission critical data in a flood plain. ... Fire Damage: When the fire catches your computer, it may damage the plastic encasings and components of the computer but the...

Trouble-shooting Hard Drive Problems - Part 2 by Sarah Lake
A common problem with hard drives is the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM." Typically what this means is that critical data is missing or damaged in two possible locations. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR). This data area contains error messages and pointer information that... The normal response to this error message is to boot to a floppy disk and to re-partition the drive (probably using FDISK) and thereby totally removing any possibility for recovery of the data on that drive, except by dedicated data recovery software or a data recovery facility.