Ransomware Recoveries on Tape – Server and NAS Systems
Challenge This customer suffered a cyberattack wherein the attacked volume was originally used to back up data to LTO8 tapes at regular intervals. Most of these backup tapes were in the tape library...
Cyberattack on VMware Datastore and Virtual Backups
Challenge The customer was the victim of a cyberattack. Fortunately, the unusual activity was detected in a timely manner and the network was taken offline quickly. All primary VMs were compromised...
Accidental wipe command brings down critical production database server.
The Situation A Korean based managed service provider attempted to make configuration changes to their client’s NetApp system when an engineer incorrectly started a ‘dd’ command on some LUNs,...
Onsite Forensic Backup tape restore for internal investigation
The Situation The client was confronted with a product liability issue that led to an internal investigation involving product managers and other senior personnel. The internal legal department,...
Long-term access to old backup tapes to comply with legislation and regulations
The Situation The end customer had to access the data on a large number of 3592 and 3592/JA tapes for a period of five years to comply with data retention and governance regulations. The backup tapes...
Ransomware Attack on Server and Backup Tapes Erased
Challenge A ransomware attack of a company server encrypted the Microsoft Dynamics 365 data and demanded payment. Recent backups of the server were stored on multiple LTO-6 backup tapes, which had...
Missing Dell EqualLogic LUNs Recovered via Remote Data Recovery
A large municipal event center in the US lost data on a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN configured with in a RAID 50 running VMware ESXi™ 5.5 VMware snapshots filled up the datastore causing the system to...