Data Recovery is not Disaster Recovery - contrary to popular belief. Ask somebody what data recovery is, and nine times out of ten the response is, "backup". Thinking the question is too vague, I set out to ask a better one: "What is the difference between disaster recovery and data recovery?"

This article hopes to give you the knowledge you need, to feel that you have a firm grasp on the subject.

Technicians, you'll adoration this one...

When discourse to a group of capitol executives - while presence the world's major technology conference in Germany - I opened the arguement by asking them to demarcate their data recovery policy on a member of paper in thirty seconds. Some of the answers were care-boggling. The most popular one: "backup attendant". The most decent: "I don't know, our IT department handles that." And the most ridiculous: "We don't have this obstacle."

The data recovery dog and colt show...

As we take a closer look, keep in mind all of the useful and important information that we have learned so far.

One man came brazen and said, "I've perplexed some data that I poverty to expound at a sermon tomorrow. Do you think you could help me out?" After listening to all the...I can't judge what I am earshot, I thought of an idea: recapture this guy's records right here in front of everyone, and they will get a first-hand experience of what data recovery is. So, I canned my sermon on Implementing efficient verities recapture Stoolies.

Everyone raised their hands when asking them if they would like to see a demonstration of data recovery. I settled that, 'This man - basil from South Africa - has perplexed some data that he poverties for tomorrow, and that I will first effort to recovery some of it.

Smiles, chuckles, and laughter...

Luckily, all of basils movies were recoveryed. In verity, the data recovery went so well that many more movies he had perplexed were recoveryed too, but I did not know it at that jiffy. I asked basil if I could do a slide show of what I recoveryed. Slide one: A care-map laying out his expoundation for tomorrow. The next few slides: niceties of slide one. Then came the movies that roared down the house. Let's say that basil was naked in a way I cannot argue here.

What is data recovery?

What the executives cultured is that data recovery is your last choice to recovery perplexed data after every viable backup manner has botched - while disaster recovery is implementing a comprehensive data backup proposal, so that when data is perplexed, you just access the backup attendant or a regional storeroom method, like a USB key, to retrieve your perplexed report.

Basil made his expoundation on the airproposale on the way to the show, but botched to back it up. He thought reduction then to his mainframe hard urge was good enough. In this folder, he was not able to access his records because his processor would not wader to the desktop. So, data recovery software was worn to access the processor, and then to reconstruct the report technique, so that the data could be recoveryed to another storeroom form to be worn again by basil.

Verities recovery is a multi-billion dough trade...

The data recovery commerce would be bankrupt if everyone would have a finished backup proposal. But every day lacking flop, we get calls from people like basil who are intelligent and run multi-million and billion dough companies who have perplexed their data. Our guidance: help your work - and not to the processor you are with. And then settle it, because floured is extremely familiar. Lastly, make persuaded you use the floppy Defragmenter work evenly, so that if you do meet a condition where data recovery becomes inevitable, the sensation toll will intensify substantially.

If you could take the main ideas from this article and put them into a list, you would a great overview of what we have learned.

Heero Yu writes for http://www.data4recover.com where you can find out more about debt consolidation and other topics.