Data Recovery

1. Data recovery refers to actions taken to repair damaged data or restore data from backups that have not been compromised by a cyber security attack. Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

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2. The restoration of computer files from backup media to restore programs and production data to the state that existed at the time of the last safe backup.

(Source: Disaster Recovery Institute International / Disaster Recovery Journal - DRII/DRJ)

(Source: ENISA - the European Network and Information Security Agency. BCM & Resilience Glossary)

 

3. Data Recovery refers to a situation of recovering specific information which becomes inaccessible due to logical or physical damages of the targeted storage device.
Source: (Powell, 2016)

4. Data recovery is, simply, the salvaging and repair of data that has been lost.
Source: (Albright, 2014)