How to avoid data loss? We make a manual for the user
The modern world is gradually moving to the storage of all the information it knows from paper to digital, accordingly the main question arises, the issue of protecting this information.
The whole world - a data warehouse
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The responsibility of specialists in IT departments to neutralize all kinds of risks and ensure a common atmosphere that provides a sufficient degree of data storage security is growing. It is very comfortable to work with information stored in digital form, but, as you know, dangers await us at every step. During fires, and other natural disasters, modern carriers are as defenseless as paper, birch bark or papyrus. But, if everything is more or less clear with the natural threats to our information, for example, observing fire safety techniques and storing copies in another place, territorial and logical, then with threats that are not of such a global nature, the situation is somewhat more complicated.
Very often, the threat of data loss from electronic media occurs through negligence, inattention, due to lack of necessary knowledge or, frankly, is a consequence of sloppiness of employees. How else to call a disregard for the problem of organizing secure data storage, which prevails in many firms and companies. And ordinary users are guilty of this. It is more difficult for them, since the amount of information is growing exponentially, and knowledge on organizing archiving is not always enough.
Every day we are faced with the despair of specialists who have lost valuable information, with the tears of lovely girls who have lost photos of their loved ones or their essays, we help, console, explain. Plunging into the problems of our Customers every day and identifying the reasons for the loss of information, we explain to them what rules must be followed, what steps should be taken if they do not want to become our regular customers.
Based on the collected data, we compiled and published on our website a small manual of 10 points . If you follow these tips, then the probability of losing important data will tend to zero, and no matter what it is about, a family photo archive or an array of results with serious scientific research.
I would like to share with you a fresh example of an “original way of data loss”. The other day, a case occurred in the St. Petersburg branch, on which our specialist wrote, frankly, a literary report on weekend adventures. When encountering such cases, it is very difficult to stay within the framework of dry reporting
“The tale of how the client twice in one weekend, restored his data.
It was a wonderful frosty Saturday night. Frosty stood, I tell you, kind. Such as it happens only in Russian fairy tales and epics. The tip of the nose bites, but the hem teases. I am with my girlfriend, read for my wife’s place, I would drink tea. Strong, hot, and with strawberry jam. It was the seventh hour of the evening ...
Call!
- “Hello, people are kind, help out ...” (well, then, as usual).
I sighed deeply, and went to the office in order to help out the poor fellow miserable, the client of the north-capital, from trouble.
How long it is short, restored the data. He overseas recorded it on a disk and drove home, warming his tea and girlfriend. Then Saturday is the end, and whoever listened, let him continue to listen.
Sunday turned out to be conducive to sleep. And it would have passed in it if it had not been for the customer’s call that the news of the work of the stubborn is brother. The miserable called again, my acquaintance. Telling different stories, one another confusion. Like, a data disc, they inserted with a partner, a new raid. And he took it, and asked a question: “Do you want to initialize the disk, or take it like that in the family?” And they take it and answer, they say: “Initialize, dear.” Take the data, let it go, under the onslaught of zeros devastating ...
I scolded him. And on mother and on the priest kissed. And everything is empty, we must work again. Lamentations will not help. He sat down in his car again, that the rising sun had a miscarriage. And I went to work. New data to recover. Such a story happened the other day, as a result of which I lost my well-deserved day off, and the careless client received the recovered data for the second time. “
This, of course, is all the lyrics. But her example shows that strict observance by all users of the points described in our manual will help to avoid unpleasant situations.
Do you have any additions to our manual? Suggest, we will be grateful for interesting and useful tips.
The whole world - a data warehouse
Photo from Lory's photobank.
The responsibility of specialists in IT departments to neutralize all kinds of risks and ensure a common atmosphere that provides a sufficient degree of data storage security is growing. It is very comfortable to work with information stored in digital form, but, as you know, dangers await us at every step. During fires, and other natural disasters, modern carriers are as defenseless as paper, birch bark or papyrus. But, if everything is more or less clear with the natural threats to our information, for example, observing fire safety techniques and storing copies in another place, territorial and logical, then with threats that are not of such a global nature, the situation is somewhat more complicated.
Very often, the threat of data loss from electronic media occurs through negligence, inattention, due to lack of necessary knowledge or, frankly, is a consequence of sloppiness of employees. How else to call a disregard for the problem of organizing secure data storage, which prevails in many firms and companies. And ordinary users are guilty of this. It is more difficult for them, since the amount of information is growing exponentially, and knowledge on organizing archiving is not always enough.
Every day we are faced with the despair of specialists who have lost valuable information, with the tears of lovely girls who have lost photos of their loved ones or their essays, we help, console, explain. Plunging into the problems of our Customers every day and identifying the reasons for the loss of information, we explain to them what rules must be followed, what steps should be taken if they do not want to become our regular customers.
Based on the collected data, we compiled and published on our website a small manual of 10 points . If you follow these tips, then the probability of losing important data will tend to zero, and no matter what it is about, a family photo archive or an array of results with serious scientific research.
I would like to share with you a fresh example of an “original way of data loss”. The other day, a case occurred in the St. Petersburg branch, on which our specialist wrote, frankly, a literary report on weekend adventures. When encountering such cases, it is very difficult to stay within the framework of dry reporting
“The tale of how the client twice in one weekend, restored his data.
It was a wonderful frosty Saturday night. Frosty stood, I tell you, kind. Such as it happens only in Russian fairy tales and epics. The tip of the nose bites, but the hem teases. I am with my girlfriend, read for my wife’s place, I would drink tea. Strong, hot, and with strawberry jam. It was the seventh hour of the evening ...
Call!
- “Hello, people are kind, help out ...” (well, then, as usual).
I sighed deeply, and went to the office in order to help out the poor fellow miserable, the client of the north-capital, from trouble.
How long it is short, restored the data. He overseas recorded it on a disk and drove home, warming his tea and girlfriend. Then Saturday is the end, and whoever listened, let him continue to listen.
Sunday turned out to be conducive to sleep. And it would have passed in it if it had not been for the customer’s call that the news of the work of the stubborn is brother. The miserable called again, my acquaintance. Telling different stories, one another confusion. Like, a data disc, they inserted with a partner, a new raid. And he took it, and asked a question: “Do you want to initialize the disk, or take it like that in the family?” And they take it and answer, they say: “Initialize, dear.” Take the data, let it go, under the onslaught of zeros devastating ...
I scolded him. And on mother and on the priest kissed. And everything is empty, we must work again. Lamentations will not help. He sat down in his car again, that the rising sun had a miscarriage. And I went to work. New data to recover. Such a story happened the other day, as a result of which I lost my well-deserved day off, and the careless client received the recovered data for the second time. “
This, of course, is all the lyrics. But her example shows that strict observance by all users of the points described in our manual will help to avoid unpleasant situations.
Do you have any additions to our manual? Suggest, we will be grateful for interesting and useful tips.