Same Situation Different Technology
Can you imagine how we got along before computers became a mainstay in our lives? While some of you might have no recollections, others might point to the time when they lost the book that contained their accounting records. Yet others will remember having their insurance claim held up because they couldn’t find their list of jewelry items.
In the first case you had to get out your check book, sales receipts and purchase invoices and piece together a picture that looked like what your financial position should be.
Similarly, to satisfy the insurance adjuster, you had to physically pore over sales receipts and retrace your life to see what items you bought, received as gifts, or lent to other family members.
In both instances you lost valuable data that you had to recover to prove your ownership of physical property.
Fast-forward to the age when we store almost everything on a computer. For example, check how many of these items you keep on an electronic gadget: accounting records, contracts, list of personal valuables, poetry, music, diaries, journals, recipes, room temperature, security codes, and other intimate details.
So now when we are not careful with our data. Don’t bother to keep backups or have our computer stolen. Or have our hard drive crash, we have to look for alternative solutions for restoring data than those used a mere ten or fifteen years ago.
Then the technology for data recovery did not include sophisticated computer technology. Today it does and it makes for an interesting turn of events.