Archive for the 'data-recovery' Category

Data Recovery - You Can Get It Back!

Data recovery is a process whereby you can save data andfiles you accidentally deleted, had eaten by malicioussoftware or viruses, hardware failures, corporate espionageand many more scenarios. Most people believe that when thehard drive crashes their world ends also, but that’s notusually the case. In fact 85% of the time the data isrecoverable, and at […]

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Risk Analysis and Control

In the risk evaluation phase, there are a number of key areas that must be covered. One of the most important is to understand probable threats. In an ideal world, which most of us have noticed does not exist, we would identify and protect ourselves against all threats to ensure that our business continues to […]

Data Recovery Processes

Six months ago my computer crashed. When I turned my computer on it would not load Windows XP and so I could not get into my two hard drive files. As an author and writer of ebooks, I had all my files in two hard drives without any other backup. At first, […]

Backup Schmackup: Im Afraid, Very Afraid!

“Why should you be afraid?”, I can hear you ask.
I just got an email from my friend Miche who said,
“My laptop is sick at the hospital. Hard Drive failure.Am praying data can be retrieved.”
Her exact words.
Ohhhh : tremors of fear running up and down my spine!
Why?
Because … and I have to be honest … I […]

Its All In The Planning - Surviving Disaster

ITS ALL IN THE PLANNING - PREPARING FOR THE UNTHINKABLE
* Make it clear who needs to do what, and who takes responsibility for what.
* Appoint deputies for key roles.
* Use […]

Is Your Backup Good Enough?

As someone who has seen quite a few hard drive crashes over the years, I believe that performing a full backup of your computer’s hard drive should be an important part of your weekly (if not daily) routine. There’s nothing more frustrating & costly than trying to restore a computer with only a handful of […]