data recovery

R- Studio:Nothing is lost forever Part II

Ron Barrett — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:09:47 -0400

I just thought in this day and age of sequels I might produce a sequel to one of my posts. When we last left off our hero, he was recovering lost data… Too Much! OK! Last week we spoke about a data recovery tool for Windows systems. In a perfect world we would only have need to support a homogenous environment. However, for most IT admins we live in a heterogeneous technology world. This is not necessarily a bad thing in my career I have found that each of these platforms has their strengths. It does mean though that not every tool works for every platform or does it? While working in these mixed environments I found a tool that I preferred for my non-Windows systems, The tool is called R-Studio.

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Recover My Files: Nothing is lost forever!

Ron Barrett — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:50:09 -0400

In an age of “real time” snapshots and Terabytes of storage, one might start to reason “As long as I live, I will never lose data again”. Sorry for the movie quote rip-off (sort of) my Mom was a big Gone with the Wind fan. You can imagine my horror when it released on VHS tape it played in my house repeatedly. I remember wishing the tape would stretch or break, it never did even after over 300 viewings. However, I digress; it seems in the area of File recovery tools two scenarios exist. One you have all the latest and greatest backup, replication and Business Continuity tools and still cannot seem to recover than one file that the President of the company is looking for. Two you do not have the budget to justify these recovery methodologies.

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Stupid Disk Tricks

James Gaskin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:49:50 -0500

Isn't it nice to know your data mistakes aren't the ones clipped to the bulletin board at support organizations? Do you really want to be famous because you're a scientist yet drilled a hole in a hard disk casing and poured oil in so the drive would stop squeaking? Read about this "genius" and others in this collection of data disaster horror stories.

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