How to Recover Lost Data from a Server?

Valuable customer databases, accounting data, or important electronic documents can disappear from a server due to viruses, accidental deletion, or critical errors. Doctor Server uses proven file recovery methods. Below are the basic approaches.

Backups and Data Backup

With regular backup creation manually or with automatic configuration, data recovery is simple - just restore the system to its pre-failure state. Backup media can be external drives, remote servers, or USB drives; most importantly - store them separately from the main server.

Windows has a 'File History' tool for recovering accidentally deleted documents, but it won't protect against hard drive damage.

Software-Based Hard Drive Data Recovery

If the drive is physically functional but data was deleted or the drive was formatted, it can be recovered through software. Most important - stop working with the drive to avoid overwriting. Helpful programs include R-Studio, PhotoRec, or Recuva.

For HDD drives, deleted data can be recovered, but for SSDs they are immediately cleared, although chances of recovery are higher with hardware failures.

Hardware-Based Data Recovery

With hardware failures (strange sounds, corrupted files, 'blue screen of death') drive repair is required: disassembly, controller and component replacement. After repair, data is copied to another storage device.

Prevention and Protection

To avoid data loss in the future:

• • Configure backups, use cloud services, copy critical documents to external storage.
• • Replace server hard drives every 5-10 years, especially with high load, heating, or humidity.
• • Update antivirus to protect against viruses capable of physically damaging storage devices.

'Doctor Server' support includes daily computer status monitoring and guarantees data security.