(24 January 2008)
Data recovery is one of those services you will always need. It is one of those services that, despite any preventative measures you take, you will require at some point. You can make countless backups, you can have several UPS power supplies, even have every security software available...
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Category: data loss prevention
tags: anti-virus,
backup,
business continuity plan,
data loss,
data recovery,
emergency services,
raid array failure
(14 January 2008)
Advice for travelers to avoid data loss
Technology has made it easier to take your office with you. However, efforts to secure borders and make international travel safer in recent years combined with threats to portable data mean business travelers must be more vigilant.
Whether you are...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backup
(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
(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,
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(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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(17 August 2007)
You may know them as Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dean, Erin or Flossie. No, they’re not the finalists on the popular television programs “So You Think You Can Dance” or “American Idol”. They are the tropical storms that have or are threatening to make land fall during the
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backup,
business continuity,
data loss,
data recovery,
emergency services,
hurricane,
tropical storm,
usb thumbdrive backup
(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,
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(23 July 2007)
One Friday afternoon, Simon Sharwood got a lesson in karma.
“I nipped away from my computer to check the cricket score on television,” says the freelance journalist and copywriter and owner of JargonMaster Corporate, a Sydney, Australia-based writing business.
“When I came back, my PC had reverted to DOS mode...
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Category: case studies, business
tags: backup,
bad sectors,
corrupted disks,
data loss,
unreadable drive
(19 July 2007)
“The day it happened couldn’t have been worse from a timing perspective,” said David Bosworth, a senior public relations consultant with C2E Consulting describing the experience of losing access to all the files on his desktop PC when his four-year-old, 120GB hard drive crashed.
“It was one of the busiest times...
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Category: case studies, business
tags: c2e,
computer crash,
data loss,
disruption to business,
emergency services,
google,
hard drive crash,
no backups,
pc crash,
recovered files,
terranova capital
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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
( 6 June 2007)
Many businesses and government agencies have implemented business continuity plans that include data backup to minimize downtime during a disaster or other unforeseen disruptions, but many organizations don’t realize data loss can occur despite having backup technology.
In May 2007, A&T came out with some key finding in its
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Category: business, data recovery
tags: at&t business continuity study,
backup,
business continuity plan,
data loss,
data recovery,
disaster recovery plan,
raid array,
storage
(30 April 2007)
So the lease on your laptop has expired? The guy in IT has advised you that they’ll be collecting the old ones and issuing new ones. So you backup your files and data on CDs, DVDs, or USB thumbdrives as every computer user should on a regular,...
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Category: helpful hints, business
tags: cd backup,
computer leases,
data destruction,
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deleting files,
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dvd backup,
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laptop leases,
media destruction,
notebook leases,
old computers,
overwriting,
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