What is Data
Recovery?
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Many people equate data recovery with restoring data from a tape
backup, or use the term “data recovery” interchangeably with “disaster
recovery” as in recovering from a major disaster such as a flood or fire.
These meanings are quite true in the general sense and “data recovery” is
usually one step of the “disaster recovery” process. However, the term “Data Recovery” has a
very specific meaning in the computer industry – “The
act of obtaining usable data from downed computers and backups and corrupted
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Data recovery is a highly
technical and labor-intensive process usually performed in a controlled lab
environment. Common Recoveries Involve hard drives and floppies that are usually from
single-user personal computers. Complex Recoveries Involve hard drives, RAID arrays, tape and optical media or
corrupted databases and file systems usually from multi-user business
systems. Data storage at the high-end
has become a very complex field. In
the case of these complex situations data recovery can be seen as
“troubleshooting data storage”. Whether
common or complex, each data recovery case is unique and the process can be very
resource intensive and exceedingly technical. |
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