Jun 13 2008
Use Revision Control to Prevent Data Loss
‘An Ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.’ If this saying is implied to the case of precautions that are applied before data loss incidents, then the user will definitely less fall in the need of data recovery. Yes, this is possible if you have several of the techniques for avoiding data loss. One such technique is revision control method.
Revision control which is also known as VCS (Version Control System) is the method which guards your data against loss from the user side. Actually this is a management technique in which several versions of the same unit of the information are managed. Applicable in different areas where digital data seeks much importance, this method uses a revision number which is incremented each time when some change is done to the data.
These are software utilities which are stand alone but the revision control is also present in several of the MS Office applications. This allows reverting a page to a pervious revision when any of the case like vandalism and spam strikes aimed at your data and so gives you a protection suite. You can avert your accidental and mistaken edits of deleting the data also.
There is a list of the software at the marketplace which are built to employ this technique like Aegis, Bazaar, Git, SVK and lots more. This is helpful for the files that have been modified and not for the other data loss cases. This is an illusion that if you have a backup, there is no need of this as revision control ensures that a file can be reverted to any of its older file version which is not so with the backup. So having this is a wonderful option.
And for the other cases of data loss like physical loss and logical loss other then the case in which the modification to the file is done, you need to have proactive solutions for data recovery. Depending upon the cause these are present in two of the forms called data recovery software (logical reasons) and data recovery service (physical reasons).
You need to have the reliability of the data recovery solutions in this choosing any one of them and better to go for the data recovery company that offers you both the data recovery solutions. This is necessary as you can’t compromise your data at the stake of quality of the data recovery solutions.
Stellar Information System Limited is the data recovery company which facilitates you both of the solutions and with the expertise in the data recovery. The data recovery services are provided in the Class 100 Clean Room where the apt surroundings are given to the failed storage media. The expert and qualified data recovery experts work here with the best suited tools and techniques to have a reliable data recovery.
For the help of data recovery software, stellar has a line of it for the operating systems like Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX and Novell. These data recovery software have a quite extensive feature of scanning the damaged storage media thoroughly and retrieving the data unharmed. You can have a check over their interactive and cool looking user interface through their demo versions available from the company’s website.