Backup Media Acquisition

     Cricket can acquire data from virtually any source and any backup media, not just the usual backup tape media, Cricket can forensically acquire data from:

• Thumb drives
• Browser caches
• Bookmarks
• Building access control systems
• CCTV security systems
• Dictation audio tape
• ROM cards
• Firewall logs
• Ghost Keys and Keyboards
• Internet postings
• Memory Cards
• PBX/CDR reports
• Voice Mail Messages
• Web-based email (e.g. “Hot Mail”)
• Web based Storage “Free Drive”
• Zip and Jazz drives
• Floppy disks and Compact diskettes
• Video tapes
• Mobile phones

     We use Veritas, Arcserve, Legato, Linux, and custom utilities for tape restoration. Damaged media is typically re-acquired, but we also utilize powerful software-based techniques to attempt to recover data.

     Our system is compatible with industry standard Unix backup formats (TAR, dump, CPIO) and formats such as:

Veritas
Arcserve
Legato
Retrospect