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Human
error - 32%
Software Corruption - 25%
Virus attack - 22%
Hardware error -13%
Sabotage - 06%
Natural disasters - 2%
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| Human
Error is the single largest contributor to
incidents of data loss. Common human errors include |
- Accidental
drive format
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Erroneous file/folder deletion
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MIS/Administrator errors,
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Mishandling
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Trauma caused by drop or fall
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Software
Corruption
Popular desktop operating systems have reported to have hung
and caused severe damage to disk systems area resulting in
data loss. Incidents when popular applications like word-processor,
spreadsheet, database, and email have caused corruption resulting
in data loss are widespread.
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Computer
Viruses
Wide
spread instances of severe data loss have been reported when
anti-virus software could not stop a virus from causing severe
damage or when an anti-virus was not updated. |
Sabotage
Cases of sabotage are being reported regularly and are increasing
at alarming rate. A majority of organizations still do not have
a security policy. Unauthorized intrusions and damages caused
by disgruntled employees and business competitors have resulted
in Major Data Loss.
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Links |
Causes Of Disk Crash and Data Loss
Popular safeguards and
risks involved.
Do's and Dont's in case of
Disk Crash
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Computer viruses have wreaked an estimated
$10.7 billion in clean- up costs and lost
productivity worldwide so far this year.
Some facts:
- $11.8
Billion Dollars was spent in US on Data
Recovery.
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- Love
Bug Costed US$8 Billion
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More
facts:
Cost
of recreating data is astronomical and sometimes
not possible at all.
Data Loss costs available suggest that the
total of these costs, which thus represent
the average, cost of each data loss incident
is approximately $2557.
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