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Your Backup: How Safe Is Your Data? (Part 2)


25 October 2010

One day I’ll back up my data. One day.

“One Day” is here, mostly.

A variety of online backup services offer desktop-syncing programs to provide automatic backups of specific folders or files.

(Part 2 of our series on Data Safety)

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Your Backup: How Safe Is Your Data?


21 October 2010

Data Safety Series If data safety was a coin, data protection would be one of the sides (the other being data destruction). For most of us, backing up is an arduous process we know we need to do, but it’s historically been such a headache that it goes onto the “one of these days” list.

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Waiting Is The Hard Part


30 March 2010

Sometimes you know when your computer is just not running properly. You do some investigating, and before you know it you have made a big mess and important data is missing. While it may not be for everyone, data recovery software can be quite useful if you know when and how to use it.

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CBL Pro-V Data Recovery Software Now Features Windows 7 Compatibility


11 November 2009

With the official release of Microsoft Windows 7 the following question was inevitable: Can I run your data recovery software on Windows 7?

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Software vs Hardware Recovery


9 September 2009

Conventional wisdom would dictate that a software-based data recovery would be more economical than a hardware-based recovery. This is not always the case. Both methodologies can involve quite a bit of hands on involvement.

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Bits, Bytes and Blush


15 May 2009

Can data live to see another day after a laptop crashes to the ground?

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Keep a Lid on IT


5 February 2009

...resist the temptation to tamper with or hand over the drive to anyone but a professional data recovery specialist…

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Which Recovery Software Is Right For You?


19 November 2008

With so many data recovery software programs out there, how does one go about choosing the right product? Here’s a quick post to help you choose the right CBL Data Recovery software for you.

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How to make a hard drive image with Pro-V


11 December 2007

For projects with logical problems one of the first steps we take is to make an image of the media. Working with the image as opposed to the original drive ensures the data source remains intact. One of the useful tools included with CBL’s Pro-V data recovery software is the...

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Common Problems: The first steps to data recovery


18 September 2007

Missing a “system32” file? Accidentally damage a drive partition? Did you download a screensaver that turned out to be a virus? Plus you haven’t backed up data in 4 months. Now your boss’ computer won’t boot and you have a data disaster on your hands. Don’t panic, a data recovery solution is just steps away.

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