I'm very satisfied with the product. I purchased it because I accidently deleted more than 100 gigas, about 18'000 images.
It took me almost two days to get them back, but I had no backups for at least half of those pictures. However, after I purchased Undelete I was able to retrieve the images where there was no backup easily and very very quickly. So your software
has already paid for it self.
M.S. May 2006
It saved me about 3 weeks work as I deleted a complete directory... the wrong one. So worth every penny and it's a real lifesaver at 03:00 !! You get a very nasty sinking feeling when you realize what you've done:) I've only needed undelete once in 18 years and it worked. Worth every penny. Many thanks.
Tony Knight United Kingdom
"We were very happy to be able to recover files that were deleted as a result of a hacker's attack of our web site. The system worked with only one problem. The Undelete product saved our skin. We thought the Systems Branch was backing up our files, but they weren't. One can never assume anything. We have since purchased our own backup software and are backing up to a hard disc that is dismounted after use.
We had a number of applications on the server that were hit by a malicious hacker. We had a Web Board forum for persons interested in the satellite frequency registration and notification process with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). We also had contributions from many countries as input to the process of developing new resolutions for the ITU.
The server was attacked through a hole left by the MSDE product that was automatically loaded when we loaded the Web Board product. If we had been warned about the hole we would have fixed the problem. Unfortunately there was no warning. To then add insult to injury, there were no backups made because the server was outside of the corporate firewall and did not have its own firewall. Our tape backup unit could not communicate with a server outside of the firewall. It was not a pleasant experience. Using Undelete we were able to recover all the files that appeared to be deleted by the hacker.
Thanks for your interest."
Carl Winkler US Dept of Commerce
NTIA
Washington, DC
We are a quasi-judicial tribunal holding and producing all kinds of documents submitted in court in order to support the decision process on commercial issues submitted by Canadian citizens. Those documents are in many cases very sensitive and should be protected and available to the court staff before and during a hearing.
We have experienced being able to handle unexpected data loss. Just before Christmas an angry employee left the company. When she came back during the weekend to pick up her personal stuff she decided to do a real cleanup of any files where she was having access on the network. So, SURPRISE on Monday morning, in a very short period of time, we have recuperated all the missing files and the production has restarted quickly. Of course reloading the backup tapes was a solution but it is really a pain. Thanks to Executive Software and it's Undelete program.
Of course, I do recommend Undelete to others; this is a kind of tool that every system administrator MUST have installed on the servers.
We downloaded Undelete v2 in an emergency situation when I had accidentally deleted a 10 MB file off of our Windows 2000 Server. It was very easy to install and use, and I had the file back in a matter of minutes from the time I placed my order. Overall, I was extremely happy with your program. I deleted the file in question from my workstation (Windows 2000 Professional) over the network on our primary server (Windows 2000 Server) which interestingly enough does not even give you a file delete warning. I'm a software developer for a small company in Massachusetts.
Hampton Keathley IV Galaxie Software
"Undelete saved my life, or at least saved me a ton of time. I thought I was copying my customer access database file to another directory to test a SQL update statement on my database, to make sure I wouldn't mess it up. When I saw that the SQL statement worked, I deleted the database file and went back to the main database directory but the original wasn't there. What I had done was "move" it when I dragged it to the test directory. Since this was done on network drives, I couldn't use Undelete on my workstation or the server. I had a backup that was a couple days old, but it would have taken a day or two to manually rebuild the order history and the online store would have been down that whole time.
I searched the web from Google, found one program that was $300. Then found yours and knew you guys had the excellent Diskeeper product, and liked your price much better. So, I ordered it online, downloaded it, undeleted the database file, put it back where it belonged and was back in business in about 30 minutes.
I already have told a few others about my screw up and your great program. The machine that I lost the file on was my web server. It was the access database file that stores all of our customer files and online orders."
