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When was the last time you backed up your data?
Some scary stats for those who don’t backup their files (provided by Hostgator):
- All hard drives will crash during their lifetime
- More than 1 in 10 laptops will be stolen in their lifetime
- A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds
- Every year 46% of computer users lose their music, photos, and documents
- 50% of all hard drives will crash within 5 years
- 89.1% of PC users don’t perform regular backups
- A recent study from Gartner, Inc., found that 90 percent of companies that experience data loss go out of business within two years.
- 70 percent of companies go out of business after a major data loss
Most of us have learned the hard way that backing up our data is important and hard drive failures are an unavoidable reality. Here is an infographic that highlights the importance of regular backups.
We can very quickly implement a back up solution for you. Most home users can benefit from free on-line backup services like Sky Drive, meaning there are now on going monthly costs.
Call us to discuss your backup requirements, before its to late !!!!
USB Data Recovery
I wanted to tell you about some successful data recovery projects we have undertaken recently, i have a degree in Forensic Computing so i should know what im doing.
USB Memory Stick Recovery
Recently a client came to us asking for help to recover her data from a usb memory stick. The memory stick had become damaged after the socket which usually connects the device to the computer had become detached from the circuit board. The client required some of the coursework off the memory stick within a few days of the damage.
We took apart the memory stick and very carefully soldered (please dont try this at home, a slight slip and all data would be permanently lost) 4 wires from a standard USB cable to the circuit board. All data(600mb) was successfully recovered from the memory stick and delivered back to the customer on a CD..
Apple Mac Data Recovery
A long term customer of ours phoned to say they were having a clean out on the Mac and in the process had transferred data to a new user account. They then deleted the old user account. Within a few days the client discovered they had not copied the data from iphoto and all photos of a project she had taken documenting a year long project were gone!!!
The client uses the mac for a lot of audio recording and thus has large files on the machine, and a few days had past so i didn’t hold out much hope for any sort of recovery.
To cut a long story short using our in house expertise we recovered over 10000 deleted image files from the machine, the most were OS icons etc, but also lying in wait were the deleted project images. Job Done another happy customer and a message from me.
PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATA ….. Give us a call if you want to know how. Imagine this tomorrow your computer Hard drive fails completely and NOTHING is recoverable. ALL OF YOUR DATA IS LOST …. can your business survive ? have you lost valuable family photos … backup it takes a few minutes a week and saves lots of pain.!
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