How to avoid Data Recovery

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

We often get asked “what could I have done differently” when data has been lost, especially when a recovery could not be made or the cost of the data recovery work was rather high.

The simple answer is often “made sure you had another copy of the data”. A hard disk crashing might result in annoyance, the cost of a replacement disk, the time to re-install the operating system and all of the applications, but this is nothing compared with the time that has been spent working to create spreadsheets and to write letters or other documents. Worse still is when the data is a record of an event that simply cannot be repeated, it is not possible to travel in time and go back over your children’s early years, and holding that wedding again is not usually an option.
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RAID data recovery leaps forward

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

Failure of a RAID system can seem like the end of the world for the stressed out people trying to find out what is wrong whilst fending off the attentions of the accounts department, members of the board of directors and probably people from every department who have data stored on the RAID and want to access is “now - thank you very much”.

Traditionally RAID data recovery has been a protracted process because of the greater complexity and the lack of flexibility in those recovery tools that are publicly available. A faster service could sometimes be achieved only by increasing risk by not securing data before starting work.

Now this has changed with Altirium’s latest RAID recovery software the process can be completed within a few hours.
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