Data Recovery Services & Information
Data Recovery Europe is the source of information about data recovery, data conversion & migration, and computer forensic services and litigation support across Europe. This site is supported by some leading European Data Services companies with the aim of providing the information that you need to make decisions about your data and any services that you might need.
There is an on-line enquiry form available here, enabling you to ask technical questions, and get technical answers, without getting into the sales process. Feel free to use this, or to go directly to one of our member companies who will be pleased to answer any questions.
We believe that people should be given accurate and helpful information, that there is no need to cloud issues with pseudo-technical babble, and that no-one should be pushed into accepting any service that is not the right one for them.
Data Recovery Services
Data Recovery from backup tape, hard disk drive, RAID, and any other data storage medium. Also data recovery from corrupted MS Exchange and SQL data stores or any other type of data.
If you have a problem accessing data, or data is being reported as corrupted, get free technical advice here.
Data Conversion and Migration Services
Transfer of data from legacy data storage, migration of tape archives, de-duplication and categorisation of data. Even where data is stored on backup tapes that have not been available for many years getting the data transferred is still an option.
Computer Forensic and Litigation Support Services
Data processing from email backups, file archives and other data storage for use in litigation and computer investigation. Backup tapes provide an invaluable snapshot of a system, and often contain data that has long since been removed from on-line storage but how do you process them?
Interesting data recovery job this one, most especially as it had been sent to three other companies in continental Europe before it found its way across the moat to dear old blighty.
The data on this tape was an Amanda backup from a Sun UNIX system, in the region of 80GB had been written to an SDLTII data cartridge for safekeeping, but no-one had set the tape to write protect. Consequently, when one of the IT staff went to recover some data from the tape, something went wrong and the DLT was re-initialised. From being a vital system backup brimming with data ready to be accessed, the DLT was just another scratch tape waiting to be used. Needless to say the accounts department who needed the data were non-too happy when their data could no longer be restore.
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So, the people who brought us Vista have “unveiled” Azure so that now our data and applications can live somewhere else, in this place named “The Cloud”.
Rather than seeing this as a retrograde step, a reverse back to the time-sharing mainframes of the 1970’s and 1980’s, where access to a computer was often via renting a portion of someone else’s, this does seem to be a possible answer to the problems of data storage, application management, and data access, and one that takes away much of the headache of managing ones own infrastructure for the purpose.
But, who guards the guards?
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Data backup can be a nightmare, balancing the demands for instant access against the equally important need for security and reliance. Essentially there are Business Continuity demands that are competing with the requirement to be able to perform a Disaster Recovery.
The same people that patted you on the back because they could get their files back quickly from an online storage system might be the first in the queue to stick a metaphorical knife between your shoulder blades when the disk based backup system is off with the data recovery company, and you don’t have a good old fashioned solid and reliable tape backup.
So are tape backup systems better than disk based virtualized backup systems, do on-line backup systems trump all others? What is best?
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Another tape recovery story, but one that shows an impressive level of resilience on the part of an old tape technology. The tape in question was a TK50, leading edge back sometime in the 1980s (and notably the technology from which DLT was developed) and after 20 years of being used each day as the boot media for a manufacturing system it had finally given up and a data recovery was needed.
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Ever had one of those days where having tried to do everything correctly that nasty stomach churning feeling becomes overwhelming as you realise that there is a major problem and a simple restore could now be a major tape data recovery issue.
You have the backup tape, you have the tape drives, but the only copy of the backup software is within a backup set on the tape and this backup is from 14 years ago and the software is not sold any more.
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