Data Recovery: Redundant & Effective Solutions

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Computers )



Computers have become an integral part of our normal, everyday lives - so much so that we are slowly becoming a paperless society, with most of our data now existing in digital form and more being converted everyday.

DIGITAL DATA

Of course, paper documents will never lose its place in society. It will continue to exist in some form or another because there are important documents that you must always have a hard copy of. But still, our growing dependence on digital data makes the existence of data recovery systems of utmost importance in today’s modern world.

Data recovery, to put it simply, is a back-up system that holds copies of your data in case something goes wrong with your storage media. While data storage systems are reliable and well-built, a lot of factors can bring about damage or malfunction to these systems that make data recovery necessary.

In the case of hard drives, it can be a mechanical failure. Another common scenario is that your system may have been infected by a virus which corrupted your data, or has damaged your computer to the extent that you were forced to reformat.

CONTINGENCY MEASURE

Either way, it always pays to have a data recovery system as a back-up or contingency measure. And because all businesses and transactions deal with documents and forms, you must have some form of data recovery in cases of emergencies or unexpected complications that prevent you from accessing your storage media.

Such back-ups or data recovery may simply mean having multiple copies of files kept in the form of CD’s, flash drives, or other external storage devices. But if you are in a business that is highly dependent on forms and files, you may opt to take the services of a data recovery company.

A data recovery company can provide redundant storage and data recovery solutions. A data recovery company may specialize in retrieving information from storage media that has been damaged or has become unreadable. These companies have sophisticated tools that can extract bits and pieces of data, and from these, try to logically reconstruct the complete information that was originally on your hard drive, CD, or other memory device.

Another data recovery company is one that provides remote storage of your files. What they basically do is copy all the contents of your hard drive, updating the contents in real time as you make changes. This type of data recovery service allows you to immediately access your back-up files and copy them to your system.


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