Data Disasters More Likely To Strike In Summer

Barence writes "The turbulent summer weather leads to a surge in data loss incidents, according to industry experts. Kroll Ontrack claims that it traditionally deals with around 12% more data recovery requests in the summer months than it does in the spring, with the weather largely to blame. 'The stress on electrical devices increases if you elevate the temperature,' Ontrack engineer Robert Winter told PC Pro. 'If you have devices that are going to fail, the failure may be induced by the elevated temperature.' Winter claims failure rates tend to be higher among personal and small business users, rather than large companies, which tend to have air conditioning and humidity control. Laptops and disk drives being left in direct sunlight or in the back of cars is another common cause of failure, the Ontrack engineer added. Power surges caused by electrical storms and failure to cover adequately for holidaying IT staff are other contributory factors, Ontrack claims."

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[hviniciusg]

Nothing to see here, just some slashvertisement of a recovery company

Applies to Data Centers, Too

[miller60]

This seems to hold true for data centers as well. There were a flurry of data center power outages in the first week of July 2009. In June 2010 there were major outages at Intuit and Amazon Web Services.

Re:Common sense?

[hairyfeet]

There is already something similar, and free to boot. It is called Time Machine by Comodo and is what I give my more clueless customers. Just add a weekly Windows 7 image backup to an external HDD and all is cookies and cream, and it really makes my job easier. My GF lives 2 and a half hours away (had to move closer to her dad after his heart attack) and fixing her PC last time she had a serious fuck up took less than 10 minutes by phone with Time Machine. Really sweet.