Accidental deletion top cause of email recovery


By Dylan Bushell-Embling
Wednesday, 06 August, 2014


Accidental deletion top cause of email recovery

Restoring accidentally deleted messages is the most common request for IT administrators when it comes to email data recovery, according to Kroll Ontrack.

A survey of around 200 users of the data recovery vendor’s email recovery software shows that 45% of requests are due to accidentally deleted data.

Accessing deleted mailboxes or emails is the most common data-recovery request, the survey shows.

Nearly two-thirds of the Australian, German, US and UK users surveyed reported receiving up to five restoration requests a month, and a further 11% receive up to 10 per month.

Besides accidental deletion, the most common data-restoration needs include collecting electronic data for e-discovery, conducting internal investigations and consolidating data from older to new applications.

The survey shows that data-restoration requests come from across the organisation, with 24% coming from the internal legal department, 22% from IT security and 15% from sales and marketing.

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