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Database Data Recovery is most commonly associated with damage due to fires, floods, or other physical damage to a disk or drive. However, Iomega® offers solutions to many other common (and not so common) causes of data loss. Take a look at the different solutions we offer:

Causes of Data Loss in Databases


  • Backup files not recognizable by database engine
  • Database locked as 'suspect' preventing access
  • Deleted or dropped tables
  • Accidentally deleted records
  • Corrupted database files and devices
  • Damaged individual data pages
  • Accidentally overwritten database files & devices

Supported Applications & Databases


  • Productivity Applications

    • Microsoft® Office, including all versions of Word®, Excel® and Powerpoint®

  • Mail Server and Client Applications

    • Microsoft Exchange® and Outlook®

    • Applications conforming to the UNIX mbox format such as Eudora and Netscape

  • Standard Databases

    • Microsoft Access® up to 2000

    • All xbase products such as dbase, Foxpro

  • RDBMS Relational Databases

    • Microsoft SQL Server 6.0, 6.5, 7.0 and 2000

    • Oracle Lite, 7.x, 8.x and 9.x

    • Sybase SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere

    • Gupta SQL Anywhere

    • MySQL

    • PostgreSQL

Supported Operating Systems, Platforms, and Filesystems


  • Windows XP Professional and Home with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes

  • Windows 2000 Professional and Server with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes

  • Windows NT Workstation and Server with NTFS or FAT16 file systems using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes

  • Windows ME, 98, 95 with FAT32 or FAT16 file systems

  • MS-DOS and variants using 12 or 16 bit FAT file systems

  • Compressed volume managers including Stacker, DoubleSpace and DriveSpace

  • OS/2 with FAT and HPFS file systems

  • Novell NetWare with FAT and NSS file systems using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes

  • UNIX on Intel and Non-Intel platforms, including:

    • SCO OpenServer and Xenix
    • UnixWare from Novell and SCO
    • Solaris on Intel platforms, Sun/SPARC equipment, with UFS and VERITAS VxFS file systems
    • Linux with EXT2FS,XFS,REISERFS and JFS file systems on standalone and RAID volumes
    • BSD-based systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, BSDI, LynxOS
    • QNX
    • HPUX on Hewlett-Packard workstations with HFS and VERITAS VxFS file systems on standalone and LVMvolumes
    • IRIX on SGI workstations with EFS and XFS file systems
    • VMS and OpenVMS running on Compaq and DEC equipment using ODS file system
    • AIX on IBM RS/6000 with jfs file systems on LVM volume

  • Apple Macintosh:

    • OS 9 with HFS and HFS+ file systems
    • OS X with HFS, HFS+ and UNIX UFS file systems
    • All Macintosh hardware using SCSI, IDE and FireWire interfaces, including software RAID drivers such as SoftRaid and FWB Raid

Iomega's Process for Database Data Recovery


  • An initial diagnosis determines whether each media device is accessible to our lab equipment. If so, the first priority is to create a raw image of all data from accessible media onto our media so that the database devices and tables can be accessed.

  • If hardware problems or operating system configuration problems have rendered the basic data tables inaccessible or damaged then our technicians proceed just as they would for a Server, NAS/SAN/DAS, or RAID Array Data Recovery case.

  • Our technicians can then analyze the contents of the raw sector images to identify the tables and records containing your desired data. This data can then be extracted and the entire database rebuilt, if necessary.

  • Normal system maintenance routines are unable to recover all data in situations where underlying media failure or structural corruption has eliminated key pointers; indeed those routines will often exacerbate the damage.

  • Our programmers have created a full set of software data recovery tools used by our technicians to analyze, fix & recover data from relational and object database systems. Once a recovery has been successfully performed, file and table lists are created and data validity is checked.

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