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CBL Data Recovery Weblog
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( 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
( 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
(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
(11 January 2008)
Sometimes a little bit of knowledge can lead to bad things. Often we get calls from IT professionals who require data recovery services. As they explain the symptoms of the failure they proceed to explain what they have already attempted. This is when a $500 recovery can turn into...
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Category: helpful hints
tags: damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data recovery,
hard drive failure,
personal data
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(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
(11 December 2007)
For projects with logical problems one of the first steps we take is to make an image of the media. Working with the image as opposed to the original drive ensures the data source remains intact. One of the useful tools included with CBL’s Pro-V data recovery software is the...
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Category: helpful hints, data recovery
tags: cbl,
cbl pro-v,
create,
data recovery,
image,
pro-v,
recovery software
( 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
( 6 December 2007)
For 24 hours, CBL is THE Hub.
Canada’s data recovery specialist comes to hubcanada.com’s rescue.
For small business owners, the end of the business day rarely finishes at five o’clock. In fact, taking work home to complete or review at the end of the day or on the weekend has...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: cbl,
computer crash,
crash,
crashed computers,
damaged hard drive,
data,
data loss,
data recovery,
data recovery evaluation,
disruption to business,
drive,
drive malfunction,
electronic documents,
failure,
laptop
( 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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(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,
backing up data,
backup,
business losses,
compaq,
computer crash,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
hp,
laptop,
laptop recovery,
lenovo,
lost files,
notebook leases,
pc crash,
toshiba
( 2 August 2007)
Organizations of any size can and do experience data loss on a daily basis which can severely impact business continuity. Hence, all organizations should include data recovery as part of their disaster recovery plans.
Security Matters, a magazine for small to medium-sized businesses, features a number of articles which address...
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Category: business, data loss prevention
tags: business continuity,
business losses,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
data recovery companies,
data recovery expertise,
disaster recovery plan,
disruption to business
(20 July 2007)
When Malcolm Rose’s digital camera stopped detecting the SD Card containing the photographs he had taken, he was worried the memories of the family vacation to Paris were lost forever. Upon his return home to Ottawa, one of Mr. Rose’s first priorities was to investigate whether someone could salvage...
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Category: case studies, helpful hints
tags: data loss,
data recovery,
digital memories,
digital photograph recovery,
digital photos,
flash card recovery,
holiday photographs,
photography tips,
photo recovery
(10 July 2007)
Faith-based organizations often rely on volunteers for their IT needs, so when a system crashes and access to important files such as membership lists, financial records or e-mail newsletters on a hard drive is denied, the good intentions of staff and volunteers can have serious results.
While we recommend to organizations...
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Category: business, helpful hints
tags: acer,
apple,
churches,
compaq,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
data recovery discounts,
data recovery expertise,
dell,
faith-based,
hp,
lenovo,
mosques,
synagogues,
temples,
toshiba
(27 June 2007)
CBL Data Recovery CEO, Bill Margeson, talks about the evolution of the hard drive, common hard drive failure symptoms and data recovery techniques.
From the set of CH-Morning Live, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Category: data recovery
tags: data recovery,
hard drive failure,
video
(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
(10 May 2007)
Marianne Richmond, owner of Marianne Richmond Studios in Minneapolis, had almost given up on data recovery specialists when her personal computer’s hard drive failed last year. Nobody could find the only file she desperately wanted — her personal journal for the past 10 years.
Her 500-page journal was crammed...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: business data,
crashed computers,
data loss,
data recovery,
hard drive failure,
personal data,
referral
( 8 May 2007)
If you’re shopping for a data recovery firm, you have discovered it is a highly competitive market. A search for “ data recovery services “ on google.com returned approximately 77,900,000 results.
So how do you make sense of it all??
To start, ask yourself some simple questions:
1)...
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Category: helpful hints, data recovery
tags: data loss,
data recovery,
data recovery companies,
data recovery evaluation,
laptop,
pc,
raid array,
recovery rate,
server
( 5 May 2007)
Whether your journal is a personal diary, like the one CBL Data Recovery rescued for Marianne Richmond, mother and business owner, when all other companies’ attempts failed, or a popular social-networking site like DigitalJournal.com, data loss can cripple an organization.
Digital Journal shared with its members the ups and...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: data loss,
data recovery,
digital journal,
digitaljournal.com,
digital journals,
failed raid,
hard drive crash,
personal journals,
raid array
( 1 May 2007)
Storage is infallible. Or so you may think.
RAID Arrays do fail and through the doors of CBL Data Recovery disks from arrays do pass with increasing frequency.
Manufacturers frequently claim five 9’s availability, but when one of the disks of your RAID Array fails and then...
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Category: business, case studies
tags: data recovery,
digitaljournal.com,
drive malfunction,
five 9's availability,
hard drive crash,
idc viewpoint,
raid array failure,
storage
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