Colocation and Disaster Recovery Facilities by John Tourloukis
How valuable is your data? Does it mean the world to you? If yes, your worst nightmare is probably loss of all or part of the data. And if just the thought of that makes you cringe, it’s time you educated yourself about the existence of disaster recovery options and how collocating your data can... Some of the main reasons you could face a disaster of data loss are: Deformity in the firmware Tampered tape Undesirable formatting of hard disk drive Logical failure Dropping of a storage device Disturbed semiconductor While these examples are mostly hardware...

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. ... The downside is that there is a limitation of how much Data can go on one of these Disks making sequential Disk Backups time consuming and not nearly as self sufficient as...

Know What You're Dealing With: Essential Information You Must Know Before Paying for Data Recovery by Alex Bezborodov
Know what you’re dealing with The world of data recovery is a big mystery for most consumers and even some IT professionals. This is largely because hard drives themselves are complex devices and their technological specifics are not generally well known. ... There are many ways in which a hard disk can fail Hard drives are extremely fragile and can suffer failures in many different ways, leading to a loss of data. ... I provide some basic information about data recovery by shedding some light on how hard drives work, how they can fail, what are the chances of successful recovery and...

An Introduction to Tape Backup by Linus Chang
If you run a small business, chances are you're saving important files to a server. But what happens when disaster strikes? How are you ensuring that your files won't be lost? Many people fail to realize that the loss of files could cripple their business. ... Disaster recovery is about safeguarding your organization's data so that it can be safely restored in event of a crippling disaster. ... What you have to do is ensure that all files on the server are backed up to another storage medium -- tape, removable hard disk, NAS device, and so on.

Data Backups – One Key to Business Survival by Rick Parrott
Your customer data is a precious resource that can literally be worth its weight in gold! If used properly, it can be mined over and over for additional sales and referrals. Do you use this gold mine to increase the profitability of your business? You should! ... Alternatives are to store your data backup on another computer on your network or copy it to a CD or DVD writable disk. ... Renter the data manually, if she has any hard copies available. ... Most data backups still use a tape drive to store the data.

IT Security and You! Part 3 - Data and Hardware-Media Disposal by David Baldwin
IT Security and You! Did You Lock the Doors and Windows When You Left For Work This Morning? Part 3: Data and Hardware/Media Disposal Giving Away PCs and Hardware This article does not discuss the Data Protection Act etc. It is about the proper disposal of information held on hardware and... I put the hard disk into a machine I had already loaded with software recovery tools, I used a software package that cost less than £40. ... That being said, keep tabs on backups, backup data can contain even more data than your live systems, data now deleted for instance, but that data could...

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.

Software That Takes Care Of ... Other Software by John Deprice
What's housekeeping software? It's software that takes care of your PC and everything recorded on that hard-drive. If that's what you need, make sure you consider these titles. HandyRecovery 2.0 (SoftLogica LLC) As you might expect, data recovery and undeletion software is a very popular thing. ... It can also be used to make a drive image of a partition so that recovery can be attempted without further damaging a wonky hard disk. ... Next to antivirus software, a firewall and proper backups, a decent file recovery program is the most essential thing you can have on your system.

Electronic Discovery by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the detection of information in the digital format. Electronic information is retrieved from computer-based systems such as hard drives, CD ROMs, floppy disks, tapes and other electronic backup devices that may contain data. It involves the use of certain technologies... Electronic discovery can be used for any kind of data retrieval, such as document recovery, data recovery, evidence recovery and so on. ... There are special software programs that enable easy and efficient retrieval of any kind of data from anywhere.

Electronic Discovery Services by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the process of locating and retrieving electronic data. These days, every company is storing its important information in the electronic format, in devices like CD ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, floppy disks, and others. Data is also being sent across the world in electronic... Electronic discovery involves the use of certain software tools and technologies for data recovery. ... These make data gathering, media restoration, data processing, document production and reporting more efficient.