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...

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 Developing a disaster prevention and recovery plan, often the most overlooked or outdated of any business plan, can be the difference between keeping your company in the black and closing your doors forever.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.

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. ... Do it yourself recovery is for fixing minor data loss problems and should be done carefully. ... That is why the number of data recovery service companies has increased over the years, making it a multi-million dollar industry.

Five Steps to Protect Your Business System from a Disaster by David McCullough
You never know when disaster might strike. If one happens, the first thing on your agenda as a staffing business owner or manager, after assuring the health and safety of yourself and others will probably be: "How are we going to do business?" The lifeblood of any staffing business is information. ... There are essentially five steps that must take place in order to protect your hardware and software investment from a natural disaster: Create a Disaster Recovery Team Develop a Disaster Recovery Plan Test the Plan Communicate the Plan Implement the Plan Let's break these five steps...

What are the Facts about Data Loss? by Lee Morrell
I have been in the data recovery business for many years and have read and heard many “facts” covering the causes, costs and trends of data loss recovery. I have also heard of all the best ways to backup data ensuring total loss of data never happens. ... 30 percent of companies report that they still do not have a disaster recovery program in place and two in three companies feel their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities. ... Surveys found that 36 percent of IT departments changed their backup and restore procedures and disaster recovery planning...

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.

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... 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 is protected from accidental loss due to disaster or user negligence 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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.

Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment by Bud Stoddard
Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment Online server data backup and recovery takes hold   By Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   Data, Foundation of Today’s Business   Data is not only the foundation of businesses in all...   Traditional recovery solutions must be retailored to accommodate the new recovery and continuity alternatives available to businesses in this fast-paced and uncertain climate. ...   The ability of traditional disaster recovery and business solutions to fulfill corporate objectives in the overall...

Free File Recovery by Prabir Sen
A wide variety of failures can result in loss of data, and recoveries of those files become an imperative task to let any enterprise continue functioning. File recovery is the salvaging process, where the lost data in files, failed, wrecked or inaccessible storages, mainly primary storages, such... But it is recommended that in cases of failures in critical environments, you should seek the help of data recovery service agents, who are professionally equipped and experienced in such disaster recovery scenario.