Outlook for Severe Summer Season a Reminder to be Prepared - Data Recovery Solutions for Wild Weather
Outlook for Severe Summer Season a Reminder to be Prepared - Data Recovery Solutions for Wild Weather

13 August 2019

The NOAA recently updated its outlook for annual bouts of bad weather to “above-normal” and that is a reminder to be prepared in a season that is far from over. Here’s some scenarios and data safety tips for wild weather.

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3 Data Recovery Solutions for Severe Weather Conditions
3 Data Recovery Solutions for Severe Weather Conditions

15 August 2016

Summer means basking in the sunshine, swimming in the nearest body of water, and reveling in the great outdoors. What’s not to love about vacation season and ideal warm weather? Unfortunately, summer is closely followed by hurricane season.

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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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Spot Some of These Signs? Your Hard Drive May Be About to Fail
Spot Some of These Signs? Your Hard Drive May Be About to Fail

22 October 2015

Hard drive failure is often a surprise but crashes don’t really come out of nowhere. You can often spot a potential drive crash before it happens if you know what to look for. This is useful ahead of time so you have a chance to get a backup in and save data.

Here’s a list of signs you may notice in your computer that might signal imminent drive failure.

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Tis the Season: Planning Key to Avoiding Hurricane and Natural Disaster Data Threats
Tis the Season: Planning Key to Avoiding Hurricane and Natural Disaster Data Threats

20 July 2015

The annual arrival of hurricane season in the Atlantic reminds of the threat that severe weather and natural disasters can be to data and a business’s very survival.

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Data is Resilient: Severe Weather Storm Tips for Your Hard Drive
Data is Resilient: Severe Weather Storm Tips for Your Hard Drive

28 April 2011

Tornado clouds; photo by furnishu In severe weather and storms, when it comes to data on digital devices – all may not be lost. Here are some of our best tips and recommendations for when the clean-up begins to save storm-damaged computers and get data recovered.

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CBL Pictures: Scraped Away
CBL Pictures: Scraped Away

6 October 2010

How do you know you have left that software scan run for too long?
One half DIY, One half modern art, all disaster. This is a typical result of do-it-yourself done wrong.

See the full-size image after the jump…

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Bits, Bytes and Blush
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
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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His Day Without Data Was A Dark, Dark Day
His Day Without Data Was A Dark, Dark Day

20 November 2008

Data loss occurs more often than you would think. In fact, even individuals who pride themselves in their backup regimen can incur data loss. That external hard drive that they use for backups can be susceptible to data loss.

Such was the case for one CBL customer…

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Save Data.  Dispel Data Recovery Myths.
Save Data. Dispel Data Recovery Myths.

29 October 2008

Data recovery is not simple or straightforward. Data loss can occur for numerous reasons. Just as numerous are misconceptions about the data recovery process.

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Aftermath of Hurricane Ike - Data on Storm-Damaged Computers May Be Recoverable
Aftermath of Hurricane Ike - Data on Storm-Damaged Computers May Be Recoverable

15 September 2008

As residents of the Greater Houston Area begin the cleanup after Hurricane Ike’s devastation, consumers and business owners alike who discover storm- and water-damaged computers in their homes and offices should follow this advice.

If you have family or friends in the Houston area, let them know they can...

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A Day Without Data is Like a Day Without Sunshine
A Day Without Data is Like a Day Without Sunshine

22 August 2008

Floridians would agree that Fay’s departure is long overdue. Her visit to the Sunshine State has been accompanied by horrific gale-force winds and record rainfall. In fact, Bloomberg News reported in an article that Fay has dumped almost 30 inches (76 centimeters) of...

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Data Loss Disasters Strike at Any Time.  Do You Have an Emergency Data Recovery Plan?
Data Loss Disasters Strike at Any Time. Do You Have an Emergency Data Recovery Plan?

21 August 2008

In the early hours of August 10, 2008, a horrific propane explosion occurred at a Sunrise Propane facility in the Toronto neighborhood of Downsview. Thousands of people evacuated the area. The majority of residents have since returned to their homes and the clean up and rebuilding of lives continues.

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Back to School Advice for Parents (and Students with Laptops, too)
Back to School Advice for Parents (and Students with Laptops, too)

20 August 2008

In today’s world of e-gadgets, a new or used laptop or personal computer may also be on the Back-to-School shopping list.

Here’s some advice for parents.

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Avoid Hazards Both On and Off the Course
Avoid Hazards Both On and Off the Course

8 August 2008

Without a good drive, your business could be handicapped, too. Your data could be held captive.

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Cars vs Computers
Cars vs Computers

8 August 2008

Have you ever pondered how cars and computers are similar?

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5 Steps to Rapid Recovery When Your 5x9 RAID Fails
5 Steps to Rapid Recovery When Your 5x9 RAID Fails

6 March 2008

RAIDs. Whether you call it a Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks, one thing is for certain. Your organization is very dependent on your RAID and the data that is stored on its hard drives.

While hardware vendors or VARs sell customers on a RAID’s fault tolerance...

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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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Dangers of DIY Data Recovery
Dangers of DIY Data Recovery

11 January 2008

Sometimes a little bit of knowledge can lead to bad things. Often we get calls from IT professionals who require data recovery services. As they explain the symptoms of the failure they proceed to explain what they have already attempted. This is when a $500 recovery can turn into...

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Heads and Tales:  For 24 hours, CBL is THE Hub
Heads and Tales: For 24 hours, CBL is THE Hub

6 December 2007

For 24 hours, CBL is THE Hub.

Canada’s data recovery specialist comes to hubcanada.com’s rescue.

For small business owners, the end of the business day rarely finishes at five o’clock. In fact, taking work home to complete or review at the end of the day or on the weekend has...

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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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Will the Summer of 2007 Damage Your Data?
Will the Summer of 2007 Damage Your Data?

29 June 2007

Residents of some cities are already hearing and reading pleas from municipal officials restrict water consumption and to reduce their power consumption and the summer of 2007 is only one week old. Blackouts and brownouts have already occurred as air conditioners and fans are working overtime to keep workers...

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