Hard Drive Data Recovery:

The Data Recovery Solution:
Hard Drive Data Recovery:
• A RAID system’s cooling process collapses, causing its drives to overheat
and fail.
• A company attempts to restore lost data from carefully collected
backups, only to discover the backups are unreadable.
• A business adds a drive to its NetWare server, accidentally erasing the server’s
partitions.
• An MIS administrator completes a fix on a mirrored drive without
shutting off the mirror, losing the reference point for the original data.
Data loss disasters like these are becoming increasingly commonplace. This is due,
in part, to rapidly changing computer technologies. As drives get smaller and smaller,
drive heads come closer and closer to the rotating media. The results are more
frequent equipment failures and more destructive
data losses. The increase in data disasters also stems
from the sheer volume of data generated by modern
companies and the decentralized way that data is
produced, collected, and stored. As distributed
network models proliferate, and organizations
continue to open their doors to the Internet, threats
to data integrity and data security are compounded.
While data backups would seem to offer an effective
shield against these threats, backups do not
always provide comprehensive data protection. That
is because the data backup plans developed by
many companies are not fully realized or, worse yet,
not followed. What is more, individuals often fail to
test the “restore” capabilities of their
backup media. If the backups are faulty, a simple
data loss can quickly become a data disaster. Finally, even if backups are successful,
they only contain data collected during the most recent backup session. As a result, a
data loss can potentially rob you of your most current data, despite your backup
attempts.
The reality of data loss forces business executives to ask themselves some serious
questions. For example: Does a major data loss put your business interests at risk?
Does data loss expose your company to legal repercussions? How susceptible are
your data storage devices to corruptions and crashes? What can be done to properly
protect and recover critical data?
The importance of computer data to the daily operation of your organization requires
you not only to ask these questions, but to successfully answer them as well. This
paper will help you in your effort to answer these questions.