Data Recovery Digest

Data Recovery from the Cloud: Ask the Right Questions

When choosing an enterprise cloud storage provider, one of the most important contingencies to plan for is data recovery after data loss or erroneous changes to your data.

09 / 24 / 2012 Steve Grant

Data Recovery from an Encrypted Volume (TrueCrypt)

While disk encryption vastly strengthens your data security, it also complicates your ability to recover your data should your disk become corrupted.

09 / 21 / 2012 Steve Grant

Data Recovery from Smartphones

Smartphones have shifted away from external storage media, such as SIM cards and SD cards, and now use built-in flash-based media for storing photos, contacts, videos, documents and other mobile multimedia.

09 / 19 / 2012 Steve Grant

Recovering Data from a Failed RAID 5

While RAID 5 protects against downtime and data loss caused by a single failed hard dive in the array, a RAID 5 remains vulnerable to other causes of data, such as virus attacks, accidental deletion, file system corruption, power outages, and user error. Recovering data from a RAID volume—particularly one that is corrupted—is significantly more difficult than recovering data from a single, independent disk.

09 / 10 / 2012 Steve Grant