Chapter – 1
An Overview of Data Recovery
Introduction to Data Recovery
A fundamental role of an organization’s IT department is to protect its data. Most IT departments invest significant resources to develop, implement and maintain a process for backing up important data on their machines.
In case of computer world data recovery is, retrieving data, lost from a computer’s storage device, due to any possible reason caused data loss. As it is clear from its name data recovery leads recovery from data lost due to mishandling of storage device, hardware failure, lack of knowledge of the user, virus attack are or any other reason.
In today’s computer world, where data of any organization is the most important part in most of the cases and by any type of disaster in data may cause a lots of financial and business loss and the organization may ruin its reputation too.
It is very commonly heard problem in computer or IT world, that the employee of any company or any general computer user was having the very valuable data in his computer’s hard disk, floppy or in any other storage device and he is not able to access that information or he has lost that information due to any accident, Viral attack, mishandling of storage device or any other type of mistake while handling the data. It may be due to lack of knowledge of saving or protecting the data.
Not only in organizations, but also home users may suffer the same problem. Thus we can imagine a number of possible cases and reasons of data loss. So “Where there is loss of data, there is need of data recovery.”
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