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Recovery

Sometimes, the worst happens…

It’s no good dwelling on the fact that you should have had backups of that critical data when the hard disk drive containing the only copy has started making funny noises and is refusing to work.

Try to minimise damage

Hard disk drives have mechanical moving parts just like a needle and arm on a record player (not sure what a record player is? please don’t make us feel that old!!) so at the first sign of something going wrong, stop trying to use the disk. Immediately.

If you know how to, unplug it from the computer and handle it carefully.

Data can probably be recovered from a hard disk with a faulty actuator arm or damaged read/write heads, it can’t be recovered from a hard disk that’s had the heads repeatedly scratched all over the surface of the disk.

SSD

Modern solid state drives are a different matter, no moving parts to worry about, but also no physical medium that can be searched for missing data. That’s not to say that your data is absolutely lost, but getting the drive assessed quickly is paramount.

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If you have a hard disk that’s stopped working, unplug it if it’s external, or turn off the PC/laptop that it’s in then contact us immediately.

It could be a fault on the power side of the hard disk, and so recovery of the data should be fairly easy, but if there is damage to the internal read/write mechanism, it will need to be opened in a specialised clean room and the platters removed by professionals.

If you’ve accidentally deleted data from a device, stop using it to try to preserve the data, turn it off and then contact us.

We can help try to recover your lost data.

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Protecting your precious data

Data Backup

Backing up your precious data is essential, but it needn’t (shouldn’t) be complicated or time consuming.

We can design and implement a backup plan that fits your needs, from backing up your family digital photos from your smartphone, to securely encrypting highly confidential corporate information.

Having a robust backup procedure in place and regularly testing that it meets your needs and is secure is an essential part of your data security solution, let us manage that for you.

Personal Precious Data

Many people use an external USB connected Hard Disk Drive to backup their family photos, some are simply saved on your phone. How many times have you heard a plea for a lost or stolen phone to be returned because they contain all of someone’s precious memories?

Inexpensive external hard disk drives are not infallible, in fact they are more prone to failure than the hard disk drive inside your computer. If an external hard disk does fail, the chances of successfully recovering data from them vary greatly, but in our experience it’s often a long, slow and costly process with no guarantee of success.

You need a backup solution that just works silently in the background, but one that you can rely on if the worst happens.

Business Precious Data

With so much of what we need to run a business now being digital based, having a secure and reliable backup of your business data that is regularly maintained and tested is essential.

It’s no good thinking you have a backup of everything you need only to find out that, when your backup becomes your last hope, it’s missing some critical data or is significantly out of date.

Backups need to contain everything you need to get your business up and running the the shortest amount of time if something catastrophic happens.

It’s not just backing up…

Your backed up data is your final fallback if things go wrong. If you accidentally delete something and have no other way of getting it back, your backup needs to come to the rescue.

But what if you save over a file? imagine you have a spreadsheet with all your client data on, you’ve been keeping it up-to-date for five years, then something happens and you accidentally save over it with some other data. Most basic backup solutions will simply write that accidental data over your backuped data too, thinking it’s keeping your backup up-to-date.

We provide solutions that allow you to go back into any file’s history and see how it was at any point in the past since the backup plan started, so you can recover and earlier copy of the file and recover your otherwise lost data.

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We can design and provide backup solutions that will help protect your data from accidental deletion, loss of hardware or ransomware attacks.

Many recent malware outbreaks that used encryption to hold the user to ransom, also encrypted connected online data such as backups.

Our solutions run 24/7 but are not accessible to any virus that gets onto your computer, meaning if ransomware does get hold, as a last resort you can simply scrub your existing setup and start again from scratch in minimal time.

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WannaCry : Massive Global Malware Attack

May 15, 2017June 28, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Malware attack infects PC’s globally

You have probably heard on the news that millions of computers around the world have been infected with a piece of ransomware, have you checked if your home and business PC’s are protected? Read more

Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code

April 18, 2016July 13, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

“Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code”

OK, It’s going to turn into one of those urban myths that unsuspecting journalists or well-meaning Facebook friends post from time to time, but behind the PR there is a serious note or warning.

[The Story, The Truth] Read more

UK Cybercrime in global top 5

April 15, 2016July 13, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

UK Cybercrime is increasing

A recent report on Internet Security and cybercrime has shown that UK users are among the most targeted in the world, with both home users and businesses being attacked daily, and over half a billion personal records stolen in 2015.

The report highlights some shocking statistics that show just how big the cybercrime problem is. Read more

Solid State Drives – Not suitable for long term storage

May 26, 2015August 1, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

SSD v HDD – Which is best?

SSD’s are slowly but surely replacing their mechanical counterparts, the HDD, in modern computers, they offer more storage per square-inch and can read/write data to and from memory significantly faster than the spindle and articulator arm of a standard HDD, and of course, they are not prone to shock and data head crashes.

So all good? well, yes… but….