Storage Server Data Disasters – Common Scenarios (Part I)
When a data loss occurs on something as valuable as a server, it is essential to the life of your business to get back up and running as soon as possible.
Here is a sampling of specific types of disasters accompanied with actual engineering notes from recent Remote Data Recovery jobs:
Causes of partition/volume/file system corruption disasters:
• Corrupted file system due to system crash
• File system damaged to automatic volume repair utilities
• File system corruption due partition/volume resizing utilities
• Corrupt volume management settings
Case study
Severe damage to partition/volume information to Windows 2000 workstation; had used 3rd party recovery software – didn’t work, reinstalled OS but was looking for 2nd partition/volume, found it and it was a 100% recovery.…
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