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Questions tagged [data-loss-prevention]

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How to protect my digital data from Solar Flares?

Solar Flares Solar flares could disrupt the radio communications and power distribution systems. There was a solar flare which hit the earth on 1859 caused Telegraph offices to explode and caused other damage. Suppose one hits the Earth in the near…
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How to set up Firefox to absolutely never to delete any history items?

Is there a way to set up Firefox in a way that it absolutely never removes any items from its history (automatically)? In the past maybe there were a 'keep all history items', then you could set it from menu to a big integer like 999999999 in days.…
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How do I preserve an unused computer?

I have a netbook that I am not using but would like to preserve for posterity. What precautions do I need to take to ensure that the machine does not undergo any deterioration? The machine will remain switched off most of the time.
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How can I avoid losing tabs in Firefox when closing one of multiple windows?

I am using Firefox v6.0.2 on Windows 7. Occasionally I have more than one window open and accidentally close a window losing all my tabs. When I only have one window, this is not an issue since it recovers my tabs in the next session, but if there…
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Are there any disadvantages of having a "free fall sensor" on a hard disk drive?

This is a general question that came out of a specific comparison between the Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEKT and Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BJKT (which is the same as the former but with a free fall sensor.) Note: I'm not asking for a review…
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If a hard drive develops a bad sector, should it be replaced?

I recently encountered an I/O error reading a file on my hard drive. Examination of the SMART data shows that the drive has one bad sector (the Current_Pending_Sector count is 1). The file was created recently (a few hours ago), so this failure…
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How can I prevent data theft from a company?

How can I prevent data theft from a company? Are there any solutions to this problem? Is there any software that encrypts important data (.doc, .xls, etc.) and prevents it from copying? I need a solution where employees can read/write documents but…
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Tar and gzip together, but the other way round?

Gzipping a tar file as whole is drop dead easy and even implemented as option inside tar. So far, so good. However, from an archiver's point of view, it would be better to tar the gzipped single files. (The rationale behind it is, that data loss is…
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Can ZFS cope with sudden power loss? (What events cause a pool to be irrecoverable if the disk itself hasn't failed or become unreliable)

All the resources say ZFS doesn't have fsck, or recovery tools, use battery backed SSD for ZIL, etc. If the plug is suddenly somehow pulled (total power loss despite UPS etc, but assuming no physical damage, no head crashes etc), the SSDs will…
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Do flash-drives/memory-cards fail silently or is there a warning/error?

Scenario Currently, my various data files (the files I create myself and are thus irreplaceable), are spread out over several directories on a couple of system. I want to consolidate them all into one place. I want to put them all onto a flash-drive…
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Can I save my Firefox tabs?

Here's the situation: I have around 50 Firefox tabs open with reading material about programming and it took me a while to organize and find all the links. The weekend is finally here and I was going to go through all of them and now.. Firefox is…
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Opera lost all data after autoupgrade to 102 on Windows 10 - how to recover it?

Today after laptop restart I noticed my seconday browser - Opera - autoupgraded, then it wasn't functional after startup - tabs were not connecting to websites. So I restarted it and noticed a huge issue. Everything that I utilized was gone - cache,…
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How can data be lost on an SSD drive?

I've seen several reviews stating that an SSD drive is ten times as fast as an HDD and is much more reliable in terms of data loss because hard drives have heads that can scratch the disks while SDDs don't. I was looking at M.2 cards that can be…
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Configure Firefox to remember form changes when accidentally leaving a HTTPS page?

On some webpages, changed form content gets lost when the user (accidentally) leaves and goes back to the page (before submitting the form). Example scenario: Bob edits a wiki page in Firefox. He changes existing content of the textarea and adds…
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How to recover lost fields entered on a PDF file (or prevent such data loss)?

After clicking on a passport application form on a government web site, the form opened as a PDF file within Google Chrome (the browser I was using). After saving said PDF to the Downloads section of my disc, I filled in the fields and Saved As (to…
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