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Recovery is getting back or regaining something lost or taken away. In data protection circles, this involves making data available to an application. Most often, this is a painful process characterized as costly in terms of time and effort. In general, recovery has a negative connotation.

To illustrate this point, think about your wallet. It contains money (most of the time) and you are vigilant about keeping it safe. If your wallet was lost or stolen, you’d probably be upset about the loss of funds (the personal equivalent of your organization’s data). Moreover, when you mentally catalog the rest of the contents of your wallet (the equivalent of the infrastructure) — credit cards, ATM card, driver’s license, important phone numbers, photos of your ks, etc. — you realize the hassle it’s going to be to replace all of the items needed to be productive again. The impact of the loss has more to do with the activities needed to get your wallet back to its original state (i.e., the “hassle” of locating and securing each component, putting it back together and activating certain pieces) than it does with the actual loss of the valued item (in this case, the cash on hand).

Double-Take Software knows it can’t prevent disasters, but it can help end-users recover quickly and easily to overcome the effects of the disaster. Using the wallet example, Double-Take Software would enable end-users to always have a spare wallet — the billfold, credit cards, ATM card, driver’s license, money, etc. If the wallet was lost, it would be replaced with its replica. No downtime, no loss of important components and, importantly, no hassle. Double-Take distinguishes this level of "recoverability" from the basic "recovery" most data protection solutions prove.