OT: Recommendations for a company that can recover data from a UNIX hard drive for a filepro job

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:55:44PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> I may need to find a company that can recover data from a SCO Unix
> hard drive that has malfunctioned.
> 
> The company that we tried seem to have run up against a limit in
> their tools that cut all files bigger than 64.3 Mg to that size.
> 
> We have 3 critical files that are much bigger than that.  Filesize
> limit on that UNIX is 2 Gb and I expect these files are at least 1
> Gb.
> 
> Second company wants to know how big the first are before they will
> try to recover just those 3 files that the 1st company could not.
> 
> Of course, with all things Murphy's law kicked in and while they
> were changing the backup drive each day no one had taken notice that
> that backups had stopped working more than 4 months earlier. (Setup
> originally printed a daily backup report but no one wanted it any
> more so we were down to no notice sent.)
> 
> I think these things will be attended to much more in the future but
> they learned the hard way after having a Unix computer (not the same
> hardware) for over 35 years.  Got used to just having it work
> without issue and did not take notice when it started
> malfunctioning.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation if we need third hand in this pot?

i believe JP Radley recently went through a recovery of his own damaged
disk drives with a company called Salvage Data - reach out to him for
details.
 
-joe