( 7 February 2008)
Laptops continue to populate our IT-landscape in growing numbers. The convenience that laptops afford us, the choice of applications available, and declining price are compelling reasons individuals and organizations are embracing laptops rather than their more sedimentary PC cousins. And, we cannot dismiss the growing trend of the...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: back-up,
corrupted disks,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
hard drive failure,
laptop,
laptop recovery,
prevention
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(31 January 2008)
CBL Rescues and Preserves Data for Environmentalists Committed to the Rescue and Preservation of the Costa Rican Rainforest.
For individuals who have had the good fortune of traveling to one of the most bio-diverse and less explored regions which still remains on the planet, the Durika Biological Reserve of Costa...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: back up,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data recovery,
digital photograph recovery,
digital photos,
drive malfunction,
hard drive crash,
laptop recovery,
lost photographs,
lost photos,
photo recovery
(13 December 2007)
Don’t let data loss ruin your holidays.
Forty years ago, beaming mothers queued up at local drug or department stores to have their children, dressed in their finest clothing, photographed on Santa Claus’ knee, a memory forever captured on glossy paper and displayed once a year on the coffee table or...
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Category: helpful hints, data loss prevention
tags: back-up,
backup,
data loss,
data recovery,
digital memories,
digital photograph recovery,
digital photos,
flash card recovery,
prevention
( 6 December 2007)
When Kardinal Offishall, the Juno Award winner and Canada’s “hip-hop ambassador”, discovered that he could no longer access files required for an imminent recording session at an US studio later the same week, he did the right thing. He called CBL Data Recovery.
CBL technicians...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: back up,
data loss,
data recovery,
hip hop,
kardinal offishall,
lost files
(28 November 2007)
Many times we get customers who bring in their external drives just after a crash. Often the external drive is referred to as their “backup”.
“I copied all of my data to my backup and it failed …”
Well, what about your original data? You mean this was your only copy?...
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Category: data loss prevention
tags: backing up data,
back up,
backup,
crash,
crashed computers,
data,
data loss,
hard drive crash,
hard drive failure,
personal data
( 5 November 2007)
Rare Music Files Rescued from Severely Damaged Hard Drive
In June 2007, vintage music store, M.C. Productions Vintage Recordings, in the City of Penticton in British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan Valley was destroyed in a fire. Owner Mickey Clark lost all of the CDs he had compiled from his massive...
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Category: case studies, helpful hints
tags: back-up,
backing up data,
back up,
backup,
business continuity,
business data,
cd backup,
damaged hard drive,
data,
data destruction,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
data recovery expertise,
deleting hard drive,
digital memories,
disruptio
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(24 October 2007)
As wildfires continue to ravage Southern California, CBL Data Recovery’s San Diego County laboratory remains open. CBL reminds computer users throughout the country that data can often be recovered successfully from fire-damaged storage media.
Doug Owens, Managing Director of CBL’s laboratory in El Cajon...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backing up data,
back up,
business losses,
california,
data destruction,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
fires,
san diego county
(10 October 2007)
Does your PC crash on a regular basis? Do you get an error message before your desktop loads up? Have some of your programs become corrupted? These are some of the early warning signs that your hard drive is in bad health. Your PC might still be functioning but a...
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Category: helpful hints
tags: back-up,
backup,
cbl,
crash,
data recovery,
drive,
failure,
hard
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(16 June 2007)
(Part 1 can be found at Filing Returns Can Be Taxing)
Even the taxman recommends backing up financial documents.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) states in a press release:
“Many people now receive bank statements and documents by e-mail or over the Web. Paper records such as W-2s, tax returns...
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Category: helpful hints, business
tags: back-up,
backing up data,
backup,
back up,
data recovery,
electronic documents,
financial records,
internal revenue agency,
irs,
tax data,
tax filing
(15 June 2007)
So, you like to file your taxes online. You’re not alone.
North Americans have embraced electronic filing in record numbers.
The Internal Revenue Service reported the 2007 tax filing season witnessed more than 76 million electronically-filed
individual tax returns setting a new electronic record.
According to Revenue Canada, Electronic filing continues...
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Category: helpful hints, business
tags: back-up,
backing up data,
backup,
back up,
data recovery,
electronic documents,
financial records,
tax data,
tax filing
