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29 November 2024 09:14:53 EST

Restore 5100 Backup Tapes Damaged By Sprinkler System Contamination And Freeze Drying

The Situation A customer of Ontrack, a leading pharmaceutical company, needed data management expertise when tapes were found in a basement partially flooded by fire sprinklers. No one knew what was...

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Tape Recovery [en-GB] Tape Services [en-GB]
18 October 2024 04:42:16 EDT

When a Data Centre Data Recovery Becomes Disaster Recovery

When a customer loses most of their data centre to water damage, it is nothing to take lightly. We received an emergency call just like this recently. An enterprise level company had a burst pipe...

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Damaged Device Recovery [en-GB] Server Recovery [en-GB] Water Damage [en-GB]
07 October 2024 07:23:28 EDT

Case study: dd command causes vital data to disappear

Over the years, the workplace has evolved in many areas. None so prevalent as the IT environment. Today, many companies have had to encourage much more complex systems in order to keep up with the...

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Database Recovery [en-GB] Server Recovery [en-GB]
30 September 2024 07:47:11 EDT

Emergency Recovery for School District with Large Tape Backup

The customer A metropolitan US school district The challenge The school district containing 165 schools was shut down by a Ryuk ransomware attack that affected its entire network. The attack was...

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Ransomware Recovery [en-GB] Tape Restoration [en-GB] Tape Services [en-GB]
27 September 2024 05:17:40 EDT

Accounting Database Recovered from a lost VMware Virtual Disk

The Customer A local German IT service contractor, HMR Systemhaus GmbH, received a call from a tax consultancy firm about an important virtual machine (VM) that was not running anymore. The Situation...

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Data Recovery [en-GB] Virtualized System Recovery [en-GB] Database Recovery [en-GB] Server Recovery [en-GB]
18 September 2024 06:13:02 EDT

Amazon EC2 Cloud Recovery

The Customer A data hosting solution provider for media companies needed access to deleted ElasticSearch data files from an Amazon EC2 environment. The Situation The client was hosting a 3-node...

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Data Recovery [en-GB] Cloud Recovery [en-GB] Database Recovery [en-GB] Remote Recovery [en-GB]
29 August 2024 03:41:26 EDT

Cyberattack on VMware Datastore and Virtual Backups

Challenge The customer was the victim of a cyberattack. Fortunately, the unusual activity was detected in a timely manner and the network was taken offline quickly. All primary VMs were compromised...

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Ransomware Recovery [en-GB]

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