May

21

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

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May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

From time to time I have need to work with some clients remotely on some data issues. I won’t go into it, but we simply couldn’t boot one client’s machine. So, I headed over to the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows to test drive it. Now, mind you, I had never used [...]

Feb

5

Recovering Laptop Hard Drive Data

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February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many ways to get data off of a non bootable drive.  One such technique is to utilize Live CD’s that run an operating system independent of the hard drive.  That way you can grab what you need from it and push it over to a network drive.  But, in my mind, an even [...]

Dec

7

MySql Innodb Recovery Kit

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December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to point you to this interesting new project release.  It’s an Innodb MySQL recovery toolkit.  Here are the procedures, via the howto:

Split your tablespace to pages with page_parser
Find your index_id values of a primary indexes for your pages.
Take one page from your most valuable table directory.
Create table definition for this table [...]

Dec

5

Software RAID Versus Hardware RAID

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December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here is the typical scenario.  A small business is looking to provide itself with a bit of redundancy on its server.  Unlike a bigger business, the small business doesn’t have a ton of extra cash laying around.  And so, they are trying to figure out if they should go with either a software RAID arrangement [...]

Oct

4

Linbox Rescue Server

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October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Linbox Rescue Server is a really neat linux application that could save your tail.  This package is similar to another product that I posted about on my PaulTech called SpiceWorks.  SpiceWorks is a Windows based product while Linbox only runs on linux.  Linbox can monitor your various assets on the network, perform full system [...]

Oct

1

Fixing Scratched CDs and DVDs Cheaply

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October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

They should employ kids to test any kind of software or hardware in my humble opinion. They should have them working at NASA, the FBI, Microsoft, Apple, etc. That’s because if ever there was a way to break something, kids will find it. Take optical disks for instance. It seems that [...]

Sep

8

Recuva Free File Recovery

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September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Most people think that once a file is deleted that it is gone from the hard drive. Oh contrare. What happens is that the drive marks the space as available and ready for use. Now, what that means is that unless that space has been used, you can probably recover the file. [...]

Aug

28

Disaster Recovery Plan Templates

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August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If you’re serious about data recovery, then you must implement a disaster recovery plan. These plans are your guides when things go south. And, believe me, you don’t want to figure out your disaster recovery plan while you’re going through it! I have compiled a few sample disaster recovery plans for you [...]

Jul

17

Distributed Network Backups

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July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

One of the major problems we all run into is data storage. Now, this has become much less of a problem on the client PC end. It seems that these days, most client machines have massive amounts of unused storage space sitting on their hard drives. This isn’t typically the case for [...]

May

21

Data Recovery Via Ubuntu Live CD

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May 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

Live CDs are great inventions. Live CDs simply load an operating system that allows you to test drive that OS without installing it on your hard drive. Now, that’s a very nice way to try the OS out, but it can also come in handy when your primary OS goes south. Most [...]

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