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Disaster Recovery

A Disaster Recovery Plan is crucial in any business. We identify effective solutions to prevent the loss of critical data, minimize downtime and to implement a realistic Disaster Recovery Plan.

Floppy diskettes and CD's
Zip / Jaz removable disks
Digital Media - CompactFlash, Memory sticks,
Micro drives etc.
Backup Tape & Cartridge media
SCSI / IDE Hard disk drives
Specialist RAID 5 Server configurations

The general perception is:- If you've lost data by deleting files, formatting/partioning a drive or when mechanically damaged, the data is lost! In most cases the data is actually recoverable and our team of Recovery Specialists have been recovering lost data at a very reasonable price.

Accidental deletion of important files
Data erased by a Virus
If the hard drive has been formatted (even if information has been re-written after formatting the drive)
If the drive has been re-partitioned
Drives with bad sectors
Drives that cannot boot and not recognised by the operating system

Drives damaged by applications, lightning and power surges.
Mechanically damaged drives (usually recognised by a clicking sound or scraping noise.)
Lost Password Recovery - We recover lost password from most popular software applications
File corruption - Files that no longer open within software applications

We offer 3 options to implement Data Loss Prevention and/or Disaster Recovery Planning:
We audit your Local/Wide Area Network and existing documentation, compile a report on our findings with recommendations.
The 2nd Option will also include a detailed Disaster Recovery Plan and the project management thereof.
Attend a training course enabling you to implement an effective Disaster Recovery Plan.

NETWORK DATA LOSS PREVENTION

SERVER CONFIGURATION

The server configuration is analyzed and a report is compiled with recommendations to prevent the loss of data and to minimize downtime in the event of server failure The report will include recommendations regarding RAID 0, 1 & 5 Disk redundancy configurations.
The separation of Operating System boot volumes from Data volumes.
Backup device hardware configuration
Server room security

NETWORK CONFIGURATION

Document all critical components of the network in a way that will enable you to rebuild your entire network from a single document (even if your network support staff is not available to provide network information)
UPS configuration & power distribution
Password Protection & Policies.
Local & Wide Area Network Security.
Network Security with recommendations of cost effective Firewalling solutions.
Identify all network components that need Virus Protection with suitable recommendations.
Local & Wide Area Network Redundancy Implementation.
Implementation of Change Control Procedures.
Testing Methodology of Network Components.

BACKUP POLICIES & PROCEDURES

Various Backup & Storage Technology Solutions available.
Network Server Backup Software configuration and purpose of all Backup Agents.
Scheduling of System and Data Backups.
Tape Rotation Methodology and Off-site Storage.
Effective Backup Documentation & Control Procedures.
Investigation of On-line and Off-line backups on limitation of tape capacity.
Differential, Incremental and Full Backups.
Effective Test Restore Procedures.

Our qualified expertise enables us to access lost data, at a far lower level than what a normal computer is capable of. Although we've invested in State of the Art Technology, it is still necessary to employ our expertise to repair severely damaged partitions, corrupt file systems etc, by means of manual but advanced disk structure editing, using Hexadecimal Editing Techniques. This technique enables us to recover data from as low as 5 previous disk partitions.