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[D28]Data Disaster Recovery Software
by Greg Eiskins, Gre

When most people talk about disasters, they mean extreme things like flooding or earthquakes. In the eyes of computer experts or people who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different and yet can have the same paralyzing effects. Just like an aftershock to a major earthquake, losing one's data suddenly and without warning can leave many a computer technicians as well as users shocked and in awe. Don't panic though, because disaster data recovery is a possibility and all that was once lost might be found with a high degree of reliability and an even higher percentage of probable retrieval.


Flooding and fire damage to a home can result in a complete mess. Many of us feel "ruined" because of the extreme equipment casualty that can be done to a home. As soon as it is established that there is no harm to any of the humans or pets in a building or office building, the healing of the equipment through disaster data recovery is ready to begin. A team of reliable computer technicians is called in to begin work on your computer equipment or any other piece of equipment that was damaged by the fire.

Data backup and recovery is always extremely necessary. Many of the techniques the team of data recovery experts will use on the equipment are the same as the techniques used to rescue lost data from other machines under more normal circumstances, for example retrieving lost files from a damaged hard drive through a fire is much the same as simple finding lost files from a hard drive with a virus or other sort of infirmity. The most important thing to keep in mind is that nobody gets hurt in the process of disaster data recovery.

Dangers from fire, earthquake and similar events

In lots of cases, companies or individuals that lose important data to a fire or earthquake face a time of uncertainty that is unrivalled in the world of business conflicts and personal negativity. The pits of despair and panic are now too familiar a home for those that have lost crucial pieces of data or information because of a strong type of calamity. Disaster data recovery can not only serve to restore 'lost' data to its original form but it can also restore relationships between them and, perhaps more profoundly, the human heart.

Data recovery technicians are specialized in multiple areas of recovering data including, but not limited to: fire recovery, water damage recovery, and miscellaneous crash recovery that may have occurred with an act involving a sledgehammer and a frustrated information technology worker on his last day of work when the coffee was cold and the air conditioning was broken. Disaster data recovery will always have a place in the annals of office and/or personal lives and this author as well as other computer users cannot be more grateful.


Technicians, you'll love this one...

When speaking to a group of corporate executives - while attending the world's largest technology conference in Germany - I opened the discussion by asking them to define their data recovery strategy on a piece of paper in thirty seconds. Some of the answers were mind-boggling. The most popular one: "backup server". The most honest: "I don't know, our IT department handles that." And the most ridiculous: "We don't have this problem."

The data recovery dog and pony show...

One man came forward and said, "I've lost some data that I need to present at a talk tomorrow. Do you think you could help me out?". After listening to all the...I can't believe what I am hearing, I thought of an idea: Recover this guy's files right here in front of everybody, and they will get a first-hand experience of what data recovery is. So, I canned my speech on Implementing Effective Data Recovery Strategies.

Everybody raised their hands when asking them if they would like to see a demonstration of data recovery. I stated that, 'This man - Herb from South Africa - has lost some data that he needs for tomorrow, and that I will first attempt to recover some of it.

Smiles, chuckles, and laughter...

Luckily, all of Herbs pictures were recovered. In fact, the data recovery went so well that many more pictures he had lost were recovered too, but I did not know it at that moment. I asked Herb if I could do a slide show of what I recovered. Slide one: A mind-map laying out his presentation for tomorrow. The next few slides: Details of slide one. Then came the pictures that roared down the house. Let's say that Herb was revealed in a way I cannot discuss here.

What is data recovery?

What the executives learned is that data recovery is your last resort to recover lost data after every possible backup method has failed - while disaster recovery is implementing a comprehensive data backup plan, so that when data is lost, you simply access the backup server or a local storage device, like a USB key, to retrieve your lost file.

Herb made his presentation on the airplane on the way to the show, but failed to back it up. He thought saving then to his laptop hard drive was good enough. In this case, he was not able to access his files because his computer would not boot to the desktop. So, data recovery software was used to access the computer, and then to reconstruct the file system, so that the data could be recovered to another storage medium to be used again by Herb.

Data recovery is a multi-billion dollar business...

The data recovery industry would be bankrupt if everybody would have a complete backup plan. But every day without fail, we get calls from people like Herb who are intelligent and run multi-million and billion dollar companies who have lost their data. Our advice: Backup your work - and not to the computer you are using. And then confirm it, because failure is quite common. Finally, make sure you use the Disk Defragmenter function regularly, so that if you do encounter a situation where data recovery becomes inevitable, the success rate will increase substantially.

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