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RAID Data Recovery
A failed RAID need not mean that your data is lost. Our RAID Data Recovery service will recover data from RAID arrays and NAS devices of all types, and with data from any operating system.
RAID Recovery for any RAID array
Tape Data Recovery
DLT, LTO, AIT, 3590 and any other tape backup media type. BackupExec, ARCserve, NetBackup, Tivoli, Retrospect, SAVLIB and any other tape storage format. Tape read error, overwritten or re-initialised tape, etc.
Any Tape, Any Format, Any Problem
Hard Drive Data Recovery
Data Recovery from any hard disk drive, RAID, optical or solid state storage device. Data can be recovered from any system, Laptop, Desktop or Server and any operating system including Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.
Any Disk, Any System, Any Problem
Data Conversion
Tape Conversion and Data Migration services from any type of tape archive storage and any backup format. Tape migration services including data de-duplication and tape media upgrading.
Data Migration and Conversion from any tape or archive
Computer Forensics
Forensic processing from tape archives to gain access to vital information that has been backed up and is no longer available on the live system. Tape archives provide a sequence of valuable snapshots of data.
Getting the evidence, supporting litigation
Latest Blog Entries
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What’s in your toolbox?
11 Jan 2012 | 9:11 am
If you’ve ever wondered what tools a technical data recovery engineer might use on a daily basis, then here are my top five tools, although they may not be quite what you’re expecting. If you think that data recovery is just about running a bunch of software tools on hard disks or RAIDs or data from [...]
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Recovering dropped table data from an MSSQL MDF file
14 Nov 2011 | 11:16 am
Many off-the-shelf Microsoft SQL Recovery tools state that they can recover from corrupt files, deleted data and some claim to recover from dropped tables, so the recent arrival of an MSSQL Recovery into the lab (all of the tables within the database had been dropped) gave us the ideal opportunity to undertake some tests. From [...]
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Data recovery from a partially rebuilt RAID
12 Jul 2010 | 8:20 am
I’ve often heard it said, “the RAID has been rebuilt – the data cannot be recovered” and often this is the case. With RAID5, if the configuration is changed, and new parity is calculated, then there will be a significant loss of any data that was previously stored on the RAID. As Hamlet so eloquently put [...]
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How do you restore Tivoli TSM data for forensic examination purposes
28 Jun 2010 | 2:42 pm
Tivoli Storage Manager (“TSM”) provides a sophisticated heterogeneous data storage environment within which large volumes of data can be held. These might include email backups, user documents and SQL database, in fact all of the information that might be just a little bit useful in a computer forensic investigation or a tape data discovery exercise. So, [...]
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Tape – “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
15 Mar 2010 | 4:06 pm
(With apologies to Mark Twain) The release of LTO5 by Quantum Corporation brings 1.5TB native/3TB compressed tape to the market, and it is a sure fire bet that IBM and HP will shortly follow with their own offerings, which means that for the past 20 years or so, a technology many said was going the way [...]
Recent Comments
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Comment on Hard drive recovery – peeling back the layers by Spašavanje Podataka
13 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm
GreaT tips! the truth is there are no many layers. Its simple, when you overvrite sector with new data there is no recovery. It means if u run quick format some of data can be restored, but if u run ''slow'' format like low level format every sector is written with 000000 and there is no recovery.
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Comment on TK50 data recovery, look out for media degradation by Spašavanje Podataka
12 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am
Finally good explanations. Recovering data from this kind of media is a very difficult job.
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Comment on Hard drive recovery – peeling back the layers by hervey bay land
2 Jan 2012 | 12:48 am
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Comment on Computer Forensics – don’t ignore the tapes by carimi
18 Dec 2011 | 2:26 am
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