[Info-vax] ODS-5 data/file recovery

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-17 20:44:12 +0000, MG said:

> On 17-feb-2013 17:51, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Recovery with a disk that wasn't quickly pulled offline can be dicy.
>> Blocks get reused.
> 
> It's amazing, when you think about it, how in 'the media' they
> always warn for the amazing danger of data still being held in
> disks and even after physical defects, in the magnetism.  But,
> ironically, when you 'yourself' (i.e. computer end-user) try
> to recover it, you're usually in a lot of pain and hours further
> ... either with or without results.

I fail to see a particular contradiction here.

The loss of sensitive data can involve any of the file data from 
anywhere on that disk, including partial data.

You want one specific file back.


>> If you don't get your data back, then you're out either the money you
>> spent on the recovery, or the time you spent performing the recovery
>> yourself, or both.
> 
> I wouldn't even know who could provide it, as a service, so I'm
> obviously limited to figuring it out myself.

The "who" is less interesting than "how much".

If the "how much" is high enough, then the "who" will usually find you.

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