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Why is Recovery Vault important?
To be short: recovery vault is the technology that helps you prevent data losses on HFS/HFS+ and FAT disks/partitions.
Why?
Unlike other file systems, HFS and HFS+ developed by Apple don’t have an effective way to restore deleted data. Once the data is gone, the only way to recover it is binary reading of hard drive sectors. While this is exactly what recovery algorithms in Disk Drill do, as a result you can only recover the file itself, but all its properties are gone: no original filename, no location, etc. However, the original names of the files you deleted may be the main criteria to identify your data without reading the contents. So losing this info may be crucial. Recovery vault addresses exactly this issue and helps you recover everything in HFS/HFS+ partitions exactly as it was there before.
How?
Recovery vault by CleverFiles is an integral part of Disk Drill. You may enable this technology on per-disk/per-partition basis. Disks and partitions protected with recovery vault will be monitored by the special background service of Disk Drill for data changes. When something’s deleted, recovery vault remembers all the original properties of the deleted items and makes it possible to easily recover this data later on.
Important!
Recovery vault is not a panacea, while it makes data recovery algorithms much more effective, it doesn’t provide you with 100% guarantee that ANYTHING can be recovered ANY TIME in future. Internal Mac OS algorithms extremely complex, and nobody knows or can predict when certain data is overwritten by the file system drivers.
That’s always important to know that you can’t get protection without something protecting you all the time, right? That’s like the issue with antiviruses that run only when you click the “Run” button: will they help?
More about the overhead: http://help.cleverfiles.com/recovery-vault-resources/
I want protection but I don’t what system overhead (i.e. Vault constantly running in the background)
what is that overhead??
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