Apr 24 2008
How Data Recovery Differ from Disaster Recovery
In the meadow of IT (Information Technology), data loss is a term refers to unexpected loss of information. Data loss can occur on any of the device that stores data. Though, any loss of the data even a simple misplacement, is by meaning technically a data loss. What we are mainly anxious with is the permanent data loss that is important to the ongoing process of your business.
The data loss can be of four types:
• Human Error- unintentional deletion
• File corruption- virus infection, software error
• Hardware- drive failure, CPU failure, controller failure
• Natural- flood, earthquake, fire
If any of these situations occur, your precious data may get lost and you need to recover them to save your business. Depending on the type of data loss, there are two kinds of recovery solutions available:
Disaster Recovery- is the process of restoring operations critical to the recommencement of business, including regaining access of the data, communications (incoming or outgoing mails), and other business information. It requires a disaster recovery plan to ensure the complete and successful recovery of your lost data.
In disaster recovery, the data is restored from the backup available on the data server on different geographical location. This is mostly useful in case of natural disaster. The disaster recovery ensures complete data recovery and mostly used by banks, security forces and government organizations.
Data Recovery- is the process of retrieving data form damaged, failed, or inaccessible data storage media. Generally the data is recovered from the storage medial like hard drive, CD, DVD, and USB drives. Data recovery is useful in all types of data loss including human error, file corruption, and hardware failure.
The data recovery is done with the help of data recovery software and data recovery service. The selection of data recovery software depends on the file system and operating system you are using. It is the cheapest and easiest method of data recovery that is possible in almost all cases of data loss. You can use the data recovery service according the type of your hard drive either SATA, PATA or SCSI. The data recovery software are useful to recover the data form logically damaged hard drives whereas data recovery service is useful for physically damaged hard drives.
There are several data recovery software and service provider companies available; you can use any one of them according to your specific requirements.
Stellar Information Systems Ltd, pioneer of data recovery industry, is a data recovery software and service provider company that provides data recovery solutions to tackle with all sorts of data loss situations.
Under the data recovery software category, Stellar provides easy to use and powerful data recovery software for all popular operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX and Novell. These software are able to recover the lost partitions/volumes and data from them based on the file systems used by these operating systems.
Under data recovery service category, Stellar provides best data recovery service with their expert and experienced data recovery associates. The company has Asia’s first and only Class 100 Clean Room for repairing the physically damaged hard drives and recovering data from them. Stellar can recover data from PATA, SATA and SCSI hard drive of all the brands.
