( 6 March 2008)
RAIDs. Whether you call it a Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks, one thing is for certain. Your organization is very dependent on your RAID and the data that is stored on its hard drives.
While hardware vendors or VARs sell customers on a RAID’s fault tolerance...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backing up data,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
raid array,
raid array failure
(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,
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business continuity,
business data,
cd backup,
damaged hard drive,
data,
data destruction,
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data loss prevention,
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deleting hard drive,
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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
(17 August 2007)
In the August 16, 2007 edition of The Globe and Mail, columnist Jack Kapica brings to his readers’ attention some interesting research results from California-based Strategic Research Corp. in his article, What if your backup needs backup?
Three main causes of data loss...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backing up data,
backup,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
raid array,
raid array failure
( 9 August 2007)
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company stated in a July 23, 2007 press release that “according to recent surveys of college students 97% own a computer, 94% a cell phone and 56% an MP3 player. Moreover, a recent Alloy College Explorer Study found...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: acer,
apple,
backing up data,
backup,
business losses,
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hp,
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notebook leases,
pc crash,
toshiba
(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
( 2 May 2007)
External hard drives provide an affordable option for computer users and SOHOs to use to backup data from leading manufacturers like Western Digital and LaCie.
CBL Data Recovery offers six easy backup steps to safeguard your data:
- Identify what information is mission-critical data to you.
- Plug your external...
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Category: helpful hints
tags: backing up data,
hard drive failure
