Data Recovery

We provide you with a professional, cost effective and prompt data recovery service from crashed hard disks and other computer based media. We perform data recovery from desktops, laptop / notebook computers, DVDs and CDs.

How To Prevent Data Loss

Prevention is sometimes better than cure.

Date loss can be devastating to anybusiness, but recovery is much easier if a contingency plan is formulated before the event, rather than after.

Forget about motherboards, processors, memory modules and graphics cards - the most important part of any computer system is the data it holds. Should data loss occur, it could take ages to re-install those bloated applications, let alone any vital files and documents. But time is money, and in today’s business environment the information and data a company stores is often the basis of itscompetitive advantage. With the temporary loss of such data, a company can quickly lose its cutting edge. To lose it permanently will almost certainly bring about severe disruption; so much disruption that many companies will never recover from such a loss.

While disk drives are more reliable than they have ever been, disk failure is not the only reason for misfortune to strike. Apart from fire, flood, and other “acts of God”, the system administrator has to look out for a multitude of potentially disastrous possibilities, including the loss of data from computer virus, human error, theft, and deliberate vandalism.

Have A Recovery Plan

How quickly a company gets up and running after such a “disaster” depends largely on the precautions it has taken beforehand. After all, it is far better to formulate a recovery plan before the event, rather than later. The type of recovery plan chosenwill depend not only on the level of failure or downtime the company is prepared to accept, but on how much money it is willing to spend on a recovery strategy. A real-time fault-tolerant system - preferably achieved by remote server clustering - should ensure continued operation after failure occurs. If a server were to go down, a real-time fault-tolerant system would automatically switch to another server or system. No data would be lost, and the least amount of disruption would occur.

But real-time fault tolerance is not cheap, and neither is it always perfect. Typically, when a file is deleted froma real-timefault-tolerant server, the server cluster also deletes the file. Recovery, therefore, is hardly “real-time” because it usually takes several minutes to restore the file from its backup set. Moreover, the file may not be identical to the lost file; it could be hours, or perhaps even days old.

A short-time fault-tolerance strategy is a far cheaper alternative. This type of strategy is best for businesses that can survive a downtime of around two or three hours without grinding to a halt. During downtime all company files and records are handled manually or moved to another server or workstation until the problem is fixed.