Reasons behind data loss:
People with limited knowledge of computer normally suffer the pain of losing important data. This problem becomes much bigger if an organization losses its confidential data.
Generally an organization has lots of files, documents, important e-mails, and data base of their suppliers, customers and employees, which are of prime value to the organization. In case of a loss of data, organization can pay anything in its capacity to recover that data. Therefore, many organizations spend money, in advance, for the protection of their data by creating back-ups and applying protective measures for long term benefits. Organizations know that it is far better to invest on data recovery or on its protection rather than re-constructing everything from the scratch.
Here are some reasons explaining how one can lose data.
Human error: A person or employee may delete a file un-intentionally that could be of use later.
Accident: Formatting an external hard drive or pen drive without a proper check of important files saved in it, or deleting files over the network.
System problems: Loss of data due to power surges or corruption in a file or data base. Using Faulty hardware components can also lead to loss of data.
External factors: Loss can occur because of natural disasters like earthquakes, fire, windstorm or floods.
External interference: It can occur because of a hacker trying to manipulate the data or because of viruses.
Now we will discuss some ways through which you can protect your data from being lost.
How to protect data:
Prevention is always better than correction as it is economical and prevents you from unwanted interruptions. If you want your computer to stay safe from any kind of danger then you must take important steps accordingly. Some of the useful suggestions are:
RAID: Its function is to create multiple copies of data in different available disks so that if one disk goes out of order, you can carry on your work as the same data is available on other disk. It also ensures better performance.
Journalizing: This software creates a journal of write operations and if the write operation fails then you can reconcile with this automated produced journal.
Anti-virus: There are many kinds of anti-virus software available. They are designed to protect your computer and its data from being affected by the viruses.
Firewalls: As the name describes, it works as a wall, a barrier, between different networks. The purpose of firewall is to control the transfer of data between the networks.
Training and education: The user of the system must be enough literate and trained to protect the data. In an organizational level, employees must be educated about the importance of data.
If the issue of data loss still occurs then it is recommended to use third party software for the recovery of lost data. These software are specifically designed to re-gain data that has been lost by any way.
Windows data recovery is well known software to recover the formatted or deleted files/data. It has been specially designed for this purpose and can recover equal to or above 185 different kinds of files. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 etc. it can recover data from different installed disks.
