Stacks Of Data, And Nowhere To Store Them? by John Talbot
Ever tried looking for a particular paper in a stack of hundreds of papers two minutes before a meeting that might change your career? A database would allow you to store your data and then retrieve it at anytime, just by entering a particular piece of information that identifies the data you... • All data versions of all the files with their dates are stored in the database and ensure that every file is available safely, for recovery. ... If the file has been modified several times, all the versions will be accessible, with their dates.

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... It’s a manual process to restore a server and data since the last backup will be lost. ... 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.

How to Back-Up Your Computer Files by Natalie Aranda
Its amusing how pc users the world over are mortified of losing data by a virus attack but don't care much about backing up files. Though the intention is the same – to save data, people are concerned more about virus attacks rather than having back up program. ... The next methods are to save your data in to a floppy or a CD. ... Therefore, the best long term back up option is to store data in zip drive or tape drive. ... So if data stored in a drive is lost, Windows back up fetches it back from another drive where its stored as back up.

Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows by Bud Stoddard
Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows   by Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   To say we have seen a significant downturn in the economy in the past twelve months would be hyperbole at its best.   As business and technology executives and...   Electronic information or data, is one of the most critical assets in your business and loss of that data is irreplaceable period. ...   You may argue, we have a special data processing rider on our insurance plan that covers data loss and destruction.

Avoiding Data Recovery On External Hard Disk Drives by Valerie Const
According to UniRecovery RAID Data Recovery Labs, External Hard Disk Drives provide great flexible storage option and security by providing a mobile back up option, yet this advantage has dangerous twist to users. With storage capacity running in hundreds of Gigabites, accompanied by high rates... According to Haj Majed Aziz of UniRecovery – RAID Data Recovery Labs “many of the 1 terabyte LaCie external drives contain 250Gb Maxtor IDE in RAID array, inside badly ventilated enclosures, when used on regular basis, especially within office environment, they are utter disaster.” Hitachi has...

Introduction to RAID 5 Arrays by Andrea Stone
Definition of a RAID 5 Array A RAID 5 array uses at least three disks and stripes information at the byte level across the member disks. Parity data is also written across each member disk to allow the RAID data to be recovered in the event of a disk failure. ... Some disadvantages of RAID 5 are that it offers slower writes as it must write parity data in addition to regular data. ... The parity data allows the RAID to be recovered. ... Since a RAID 5 writes parity data to each of the member disks, a RAID 5 can sustain the failure of one disk.

Network Attached Storage – An Alternative To Tape Back-up by Mark Allen
Businesses have been using tape to back up their data since the early days of computing. Tape has its limitations, but it was much cheaper than the alternatives, so its use continued. Today, the situation is changing. The price of disk storage has come down dramatically and the performance,... Large amounts of data need to be accommodated (due to the need to keep multiple versions of the data), but in many cases the data will never be accessed. ... For rapidly changing and highly important data, the on-site and off-site systems can be set up to mirror each other, so that little or no data...

Got Data? by Grace Judson
Each of the stories that follow is absolutely factual. When their clothes dryer blew up, the young couple escaped with her cell phone, their toddler son, and one shoe. The house was incinerated in fifteen minutes. She was supporting the family with her home-based business while her husband... Even for those who are technically proficient, creating a personal backup and disaster recovery plan ranks only slighly higher than cleaning the bathroom; for the many who find technology confusing and scary, cleaning the bathroom starts looking downright fun compared to figuring out a backup plan!

Booting Problem in PC by ravi chamria
One fine day you start your PC and get messages that say,”Book Disk failure”. The problem is that the hard disk is detected but the OS does not load. The system may get stuck in the second screen during the booting process or the OS might display an error message and refuse to load. ... Connect it to some other system and try to access the data if you can, then your boot record is damaged. ... Note that if you use Windows 2000 or XP, boot into the recovery console and give the command ‘fixmbr’ to clear the MBR.

Backup-Backup-Backup by Michael Kaye
Why Do I Need To Backup My Computer? The question is this. If your computer happened to up and die one day and you lost all the information on it, would this affect your mood that day? If your answer was no then you would be one of the few that doesn’t need to Backup their computer. ... There are also companies that specialize in Data recovery and can recover Data even from water and fire damaged Hard Drives. ... This type of recovery must be done as soon as possible to the initial erasing of the Data before new files have the chance to overwrite the erased files.