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Contents of Business
Continuity Solution
This is a solution which once implemented revives 100% data in
the event of a data loss situation. This solution also restore-back
crashed operating system or applications in a normal healthy condition
with single key hit. The automated backup solution is integrated
that takes automatic, regular and incremental backup of data,
just in case there is a physical hard disk crash disaster. This
complete Business Continuity solution has added prevention of
data loss due to all the possible causes vis-à-vis logical
problems, problems due to OS-Applications and physical losses.
Concept
Most post-crash data recovery software has serious technical
limitations in restoring-back 100% of the data. Only a partial
recovery is possible in most cases. Moreover a non-technical end-user
was unable to handle the issues like connecting a disk or media
on which to transfer the recoverable files. Post crash recovery
software sometimes also requires input about how data was lost
or how it happened, and this is not what a non-technical user
would know, wants to investigate, or would be willing to admit
(How many users admit they did restart the PC without properly
shutting it down? Who would ever open an attachment that was possibly
infected with a virus?). A user will search for data recovery
software when he encounters a problem, everyone around him are
on their toes, like his/her staff, the IT department, the service
provider and of course the accounts department to shell out a
lot of money for data recovery service or purchasing a post crash
data recovery software. Moreover neither services or data recovery
software guarantees 100% recovery. Another aspect that needs to
consider is the loss in business continuity resulting in work
stoppage, lost productivity, missed deadlines, project delays,
and loss to customers, employee frustration. This is a result
of crashes in the operating system/applications also. Apart from
Data loss prevention and OS restoration the third aspect to be
considered is physical loss of data. The causes could be Hard
disk crash (because of electronic failures, voltage spikes, shock
or sabotage), physical overwriting of file contents or data file
corruption. Recovery costs from these types of failures are enormous
and sometimes futile. Considering situations of physical disasters
and hard disk crashes the automated backup solution completes
the circle of Business Continuity.
The
Problem - DATA LOSS
- Partition / Boot Sector Corruption.Directory Structure
/ File run corruption.
- File Allocation / Master File Table errors.
- Viruses.
- Accidental Disk Format.
- Accidental File deletion.
- Bad File Transfer.
- Faulty Software.
- Incorrect management of certain Disk Management Utilities.
- Voltage glitches.
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) or heat.
Solution - Data Loss Prevention Module
The
Problem - OS CRASH/APPLICATION CRASH
- Incorrect shutdown or switch off.
- Error message System not found during
boot process.
- Desktop is not displayed after boot process.
- Stop Message (Windows 2000) with blue screen is shown.
(In certain cases this occurs due to hardware failures
that are not covered by Unistal's Restore).
- IN_ACCESSIBLE_BOOT device message is displayed.
- System is not booting due to faulty device driver installations.
- Keyboard working under windows environment but not working
under windows command prompt.
- User profile is damaged or you want to recover old password.
- User has changed the password and forgotten the new password
but remembers the old one.
- Virus like alladin.worm, delete password,
hence logging into OS is prevented.
- User or third party tools accidentally delete certain
important entries of registry.
- User profile like :- default colour settings, default
size for icon, buttons how discrepancies.
- System Hardware configuration gets corrupted.
- Page file settings get corrupted.
- Network Card settings and Network Settings get changed.
- List of Installed Application is lost or changed.
- List of paths for executing system files gets changed.
Solution - OS-Application Restoration
Module
The
Problem - PHYSICAL DATA LOSS
- Laptop gets stolen.
- Physical damages to hard disk.
- Short circuits.
- Voltage spikes.
- Hard disk fails to respond.
- Files are overwritten after deletion.
- Older version of spreadsheet required.
- Database or file corrupted.
Solution - Automatic Data
Backup Module
The
Problem - PHYSICAL DATA LOSS
Pre Crash
When installed the software stores the system area
and file system index information and also OS/Application
images, registry indexes as images in the disk.
These parameters have information about the partitions,
boot values, allocation unit, folder structures
and user profiles, hardware profiles, security settings
and software configurations. Crash Proof updates
the parameters on a daily basis at the time of the
first system boot and every interval (2 hours, 4
hours, 8 hours) as specified by the user. This needs
to be done since, file allocations keep changing
and adding up as and when files are added in the
system.
The Crash
Data is stored on the disk; it is linked to the
operating system using the indexes like Directory
Structures, the File Allocation Tables or Master
File tables, Data runs, Boot Record and Partition
Sector. The operating system functionality totally
depends on the registries. When these areas get
corrupted, data/files are assumed lost or OS does
not boot. The operating system is unable to locate
and present it, because the file links are lost.
Any slight difference in values or bytes in any
of the system areas or registries will render data
or OS inaccessible! Common hard disk crash messages
are, Invalid Drive Specification, Invalid
Media Type Error, Drive not found;
ROM basic error, Missing DLL,
Operating system not found. At that
moment, data/files are still physically present
on the disk!
Revival
In the event of a disk crash, a single key operation
rebuilds the file system parameters, registries
and indexes from its stored images to their original
locations. This way Crash Proof revives 100% data,
even if your PC is not able to start up due to OS
corruption. The complete revive process takes only
a few minutes.
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