Heads and Tales: Rescuing Data for Environmentalists Rescuing the Rainforest
Heads and Tales: Rescuing Data for Environmentalists Rescuing the Rainforest

21 April 2016

Through the research efforts of the individuals who make the Durika Reserve home as well as the visitors to the community each year, a vast array of previously unknown or recorded findings has been collected for five years on the flora and fauna which also make Durika their home.

While a self-sustainable community that uses alternative energy sources, its members do leverage select modern technologies including a laptop computer upon which are stored the images of the flora and fauna captured by researchers and visitors. When Eugenio García López, biologist and ecologist with Fundación Durika, could not access the files on his laptop’s hard drive, he felt despair.

“The photographs contained on the damaged external hard drive represented hundreds of hours and research of biologists in the rainforest or photographs taken while hiking through dense, virgin jungle where no one probably has ever been before.”

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Don’t Forget to Back up Your Data on World Backup Day, March 31st
Don’t Forget to Back up Your Data on World Backup Day, March 31st

31 March 2015

CBL would like to remind everyone to back up their data on World Backup Day, which is this week – March 31st!

CBL Data Recovery supports World Backup Day’s mission to increase awareness and decrease the incidents of data loss through avid worldwide data backup. Find out some ways to back up after the jump.

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Tax Returns, Tax Refunds, & Data Recovery
Tax Returns, Tax Refunds, & Data Recovery

26 March 2009

Reduce the chance of identity theft. Wipe your drive,

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Holiday Travelers Beware:  Tips for travelers who put critical information at risk during the holidays
Holiday Travelers Beware: Tips for travelers who put critical information at risk during the holidays

9 December 2008

Will you be heading home with your notebook for the holidays later this month? Will you be staying home and continue to commute and compute with your laptop daily? Regardless, be vigilant and protect your data.

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Don’t Throw Out the Hard Drive with the Flood Waters
Don’t Throw Out the Hard Drive with the Flood Waters

10 July 2008

Data on Water-Ravaged Computers is Recoverable

Data is key to the operations of American businesses. When access to data is denied and organizations suffer data loss, it can cripple some companies. If it is not the flood waters of the Midwest which have forced businesses and employees to flee town,...

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Compute While You Commute
Compute While You Commute

7 February 2008

Laptops continue to populate our IT-landscape in growing numbers. The convenience that laptops afford us, the choice of applications available, and declining price are compelling reasons individuals and organizations are embracing laptops rather than their more sedimentary PC cousins. And, we cannot dismiss the growing trend of the...

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Yes, Virginia, Your Holiday Photos can be Rescued
Yes, Virginia, Your Holiday Photos can be Rescued

13 December 2007

Don’t let data loss ruin your holidays.

Forty years ago, beaming mothers queued up at local drug or department stores to have their children, dressed in their finest clothing, photographed on Santa Claus’ knee, a memory forever captured on glossy paper and displayed once a year on the coffee table or...

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Heads and Tales:  When he lost data, Kardinal Offishall did the right thing.
Heads and Tales: When he lost data, Kardinal Offishall did the right thing.

6 December 2007

When Kardinal Offishall, the Juno Award winner and Canada’s “hip-hop ambassador”, discovered that he could no longer access files required for an imminent recording session at an US studio later the same week, he did the right thing. He called CBL Data Recovery.

CBL technicians...

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When a backup drive is not a "backup"
When a backup drive is not a "backup"

28 November 2007

Many times we get customers who bring in their external drives just after a crash. Often the external drive is referred to as their “backup”.

“I copied all of my data to my backup and it failed …”

Well, what about your original data? You mean this was your only copy?...

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Rare Music Files Rescued from Severely Damaged Hard Drive
Rare Music Files Rescued from Severely Damaged Hard Drive

5 November 2007

Heads and Tales: Out of the Ashes

When vintage music store, M.C. Productions Vintage Recordings, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada was destroyed in a fire, owner Mickey Clark lost all of the CDs he had compiled from his massive record collection, all of the backup disks from the music files he had digitized, and half of his inventory of 20,000 original recordings dating back to 1902. In addition, both of his hard drives were drowning in two feet of water. To the distraught performer, that meant the possible loss of thousands of music files many of which were Clark’s only copies which he started collecting at the age of eight.

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Attention California Residents and CBL Customers
Attention California Residents and CBL Customers

24 October 2007

As wildfires continue to ravage Southern California, CBL Data Recovery’s San Diego County laboratory remains open. CBL reminds computer users throughout the country that data can often be recovered successfully from fire-damaged storage media.

Doug Owens, Managing Director of CBL’s laboratory in El Cajon...

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Don't Ignore The Warning Signs
Don't Ignore The Warning Signs

10 October 2007

Does your PC crash on a regular basis? Do you get an error message before your desktop loads up? Have some of your programs become corrupted? These are some of the early warning signs that your hard drive is in bad health. Your PC might still be functioning but a...

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Filing Returns Can Be Taxing - Part 2
Filing Returns Can Be Taxing - Part 2

16 June 2007

(Part 1 can be found at Filing Returns Can Be Taxing)

Even the taxman recommends backing up financial documents.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) states in a press release:

“Many people now receive bank statements and documents by e-mail or over the Web. Paper records such as W-2s, tax returns...

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Filing Returns Can Be Taxing
Filing Returns Can Be Taxing

15 June 2007

So, you like to file your taxes online. You’re not alone.

North Americans have embraced electronic filing in record numbers.

The Internal Revenue Service reported the 2007 tax filing season witnessed more than 76 million electronically-filed individual tax returns setting a new electronic record.

According to Revenue Canada, Electronic filing continues...

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