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Deletion and formatting doesn't necessarily destroy data, it just destroys the pointers to the data. If they're lucky the data can be recovered via software uti
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
Deletion and formatting doesn't necessarily destroy data, it just destroys the pointers to the data. If they're lucky the data can be recovered via software utilities (undelete) with backfill from backups. If they're unlucky then important and un-backedup data has been written over, and those people are going to be SoL.
- johnchristopher 12y agoAre there actual backup procedures out there that foresee and automate the restoration of wiped drives and partitions ? I might be wrong bu I doubt it should even be considered though.
- fyrabanks 12y agoYes, there are a lot of options, both commercial and non-commercial, for full drive backups (then you restore the using those and the incrementals). Do that for your provisioning servers and you can redeploy a lot of the infrastructure based on that.
- johnchristopher 12y agoI see, Thank you. Somehow I was under the impression that automating and scaling the tedious work of analyzing and restoring boot sectors and the like couldn't be done. I suppose that it's easier to plan for though if you restore a whole drive from a backup image rather than restoring a random set of files by going on a sector hunt ?
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