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In all the talk about logical partitions, file systems, corrupted data and lost clusters one tends to forget that data recovery involves certain physical tools. Platter exchangers, read write head removers and such tools are needed where the hard drive has suffered physical damage.

Back in 1988 Alfred Demirjian set up a company to recover lost data from hard drives. At that time, hard drives were still something of a novelty and people laughed at Demirjian for offering a service that had hardly any demand.

Data loss time is typically panic time. However, if you forget some key issues in the panic, your data recovery exercise could turn out to be a nightmare. One of the key issues is identifying the important data that you need to recover immediately.

Cloud computing involves storing your applications and even data on the Internet cloud. Gmail is an example. Both the mail application and your emails are stored on Google's servers.

Cloud computing involves storing your applications and even data on the Internet cloud. Gmail is an example. Both the mail application and your emails are stored on Google's servers.

Data of Google Apps users is stored by Google, who takes care of data protection (and reovery if it becomes necessary). According to the blog post cited at the bottom, Google replicates all the actions of users at two data centers, and switches over to the backup in case the primary center fails.

According to Data Savers, LLC, data recovery companies are typically very secretive about data recovery procedures. They do not want the know-how they have often acquired through painful reverse-engineering and research to go out. As a result, clients rarely get to interact with data recovery technicians.

Cloud computing is using the Internet "cloud" resources to do your computing-related tasks. It is comparatively safe option because you will be depending on dedicated service provider who would be attending to data security, protection and even recovery if it becomes necessary. Or is it?

Disaster recovery solutions are used when a disaster strikes. Downtime is inevitable in disasters and the cost of the consequent business interruption should be added to the cost of data recovery and other direct costs. In earlier days, when the volume of data was not all that stupendous, this cost might have been justified; but with the ever increasing data volumes, the cost of managing everything has gone beyond affordable levels.