Nearly 50% of data recovery attempts fail …
October 12, 2007
Nearly half of all attempts made by organizations to recover lost data to some degree ultimately end in failure, according to a survey from server appliance manufacturer Equiinet.
Even those companies with a large number of professional IT staff and back-ups in place had problems recovering data, although the survey revealed that the problem is more common among firms using older back-p technologies and slightly smaller companies, many of which do not make regular back-ups of electronic data.
Dave Abbot, product marketing director of Equiinet, said: “Despite a lot of time and effort in undertaking the back-up process, older back-up technologies, such as tapes, have considerable drawbacks.
“Our survey showed that 40 percent of data recovery attempts fail to restore all the required data.”
The survey also revealed that many back-ups that are made are not stored securely, with about two-thirds of companies admitting to leaving them in the same room as their servers.
More worrying still, 80 percent of IT managers admitted that they wash their hands of responsibility when it comes to backing up data stored on individual laptops or standalone PCs, leaving it to staff to make their own back-ups.
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