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

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

JoeChasan averred (on Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 02:13:59PM -0400):
| 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.
|  

Yes, Salvage Data extracted all the data on my 6 drives in a RAID array
that went through my fire last May.  Ring me, Nancy: 646-808-4727.

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JP