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Hosco Data Recovery

Score9.7 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Hosco Data Recovery?

Hosco Data Recovery is a specialized service offered by Hosco Recuperação de Dados, a data recovery firm based in São Paulo, Brazil. The service leverages a technical team with over two decades of experience in reversing complex data loss incidents for corporate and business clients.

The service is designed for business and enterprise storage systems (NAS, SAN, DAS), virtualized environments, and large-scale servers. It covers a wide range of logical and physical damage scenarios, including data loss incidents on platforms from vendors such as Dell, HPE, IBM, Oracle, Lenovo, Supermicro, QNAP and Synology.

A key differentiator is the use of a proprietary suite of in-house software developed to handle advanced data structures. All recovery work is executed in a controlled laboratory for physical media (HDD, SSD) and a secure data center environment, with processes directly supervised by the company’s CTO.

Key Areas of Specialization

RAID arrays: Support for DDF, MD RAID, RAID-Z and complex proprietary RAID configurations, including DG (Disk Group), VD (Virtual Disk) and Logical Drive layouts commonly used by enterprise storage controllers.
Logical volumes: Expertise with LVM on Linux, AIX and HP-UX, covering volume groups, logical volumes, datastores and LUNs presented over Fibre Channel or iSCSI, including scenarios involving deletion or loss of metadata.
File systems: Recovery from advanced (ZFS, Btrfs, JFS) Unix-like file systems, even in cases of corruption, or damaged superblocks and uberblocks, including scenarios with physical media issues on HDDs or SSDs.
Hypervisors: Support for VMware, Proxmox, IBM PowerVM, Hyper-V and Xen environments, including VMFS datastores, VIOS, LPAR (Logical Partition), virtual disks (VMDK, VHDX, QCOW2) and thin-provisioned volumes.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Screenshot of Identification of damaged hard drives from a failed RAID system during viability analysis service, clearly marked with red tags to isolate and prioritize faulty components. This precise identification enables focused recovery efforts on operational drives, ensuring data integrity and maximizing the chances of successful restoration in complex storage environments.
Screenshot of Hosco Data Recovery provides advanced physical media repair within a controlled laboratory environment tailored for delicate procedures like read/write head assembly replacement. The pictured hard drive originates from an HPE storage system and has undergone expert technical intervention aimed at restoring its minimal operational integrity. All repair processes are conducted under direct supervision by experienced technical leadership to ensure strict quality standards and data security.
Screenshot of Hosco’s advanced data recovery infrastructure features a secure rack-mounted environment equipped with enterprise-grade servers and storage arrays from leading vendors such as Oracle and IBM. This robust infrastructure supports data recovery from large-scale, multi-drive storage systems. Combined with proprietary in-house tools for RAID and ZFS recovery, it enables complex data reconstruction workflows for critical incidents.
Screenshot of The Hosco proprietary RAID Recovery software analyzes disk sets within RAID arrays to determine their exact configuration and supports multiple RAID levels and complex controller-based layouts. It detects key parameters such as stripe size, disk order, parity distribution, DG (Disk Group), VD (Virtual Disk), and Logical Drive structures, enabling precise and reliable reconstruction of the RAID array. This tool provides a robust data recovery solution tailored for enterprise servers and storage environments and achieves high recovery success rates under expert supervision.
Screenshot of The proprietary Hosco tool called ZFS Recovery examines metadata stored on each disk, such as pool version and state, RAID-Z type, dataset presence, and other important information to support accurate and reliable reconstruction of stripe, mirror, or RAID-Z pools in damaged or degraded scenarios. This in-depth inspection enables restoring complex ZFS pools experiencing consistency or availability issues related to data loss.

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Screenshot of Identification of damaged hard drives from a failed RAID system during viability analysis service, clearly marked with red tags to isolate and prioritize faulty components. This precise identification enables focused recovery efforts on operational drives, ensuring data integrity and maximizing the chances of successful restoration in complex storage environments.

Top Performing Features

  • Data Recovery Expertise

    The provider has a team of experienced professionals who specialize in data recovery and can effectively retrieve lost or damaged data.

    Category average: 9.7

  • Confidentiality

    The provider ensures the security and confidentiality of recovered data, taking measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access.

    Category average: 9.7

  • Success Rate

    The provider has a proven track record of successful data recovery and a high success rate in retrieving lost or damaged data.

    Category average: 9.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Range of Recovery Services

    The provider offers a comprehensive range of data recovery services, including recovery for hard drives, solid-state drives, RAID arrays, and more.

    Category average: 9

  • Turnaround Time

    The provider offers a fast turnaround time for data recovery, minimizing the downtime for users and businesses.

    Category average: 9

  • Industry Certification

    The provider is certified by relevant industry organizations and has received recognition for their expertise and quality of service.

    Category average: 8.7

Restauração de Dados Corrompidos e Perdidos em Datacenter

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In Brazil and Latin America, we use Hosco Data Recovery as our official data recovery partner to support clients when a data loss incident cannot be resolved through standard backup and restore processes, such as in cases of missing or incomplete backups, corrupted repositories, or storage failures affecting NAS or RAID environments. Hosco Data Recovery helps resolve critical business issues such as unplanned downtime, production data loss, and the need to quickly restore operations, always under strict confidentiality, including signing an NDA when necessary. Our scope is incident-oriented and typically includes technical triage, physical and logical diagnostics, RAID parameter identification and logical reconstruction, secure data extraction, and integrity validation before delivery to the client. In a recent service call for a client referred by our team, Hosco Data Recovery recovered approximately 90% of critical data and helped restore operations in about four days, avoiding a complete storage reconstruction and significantly reducing operational impact.

Na Bacula Brasil e América Latina, utilizamos a Hosco Recuperação de Dados como nossa parceira oficial em recuperação de dados para apoiar clientes quando um incidente de perda de dados não pode ser resolvido por meio dos processos padrão de backup e restauração, como em casos de backups ausentes ou incompletos, repositórios corrompidos ou falhas de armazenamento que afetam ambientes NAS ou RAID.A Hosco ajuda a resolver problemas críticos de negócio, como paradas não planejadas, perda de dados de produção e a necessidade de restabelecer as operações rapidamente, sempre sob rigorosa confidencialidade, incluindo a assinatura de NDA quando necessário. Nosso escopo é orientado a incidentes e normalmente inclui triagem técnica, diagnósticos físicos e lógicos, identificação de parâmetros de RAID e reconstrução lógica, extração segura dos dados e validação de integridade antes da entrega ao cliente.Em um atendimento recente de um cliente indicado por nossa equipe, a Hosco recuperou aproximadamente 90% dos dados críticos e ajudou a restabelecer as operações em cerca de quatro dias, evitando a reconstrução completa do storage e reduzindo de forma significativa o impacto operacional.

Pros

  • Hard Drive Recovery (Recuperação de Dicos Rígidos)
  • NAS Recovery (Recuperação de NAS)
  • Storage Recovery (Recuperação de Storages)
  • Restoring Lost and Corrupted Data (Restauração Dados Perdidos e Corrompidos)

Cons

  • Selling the software used is good. (Vender os softwares utilizados, são bons)
  • Give Training (Dar treinamentos)
  • Mais nada

Return on Investment

  • It helped preserve major contracts. (Ajudou a preservar grandes contratos)
  • Customer Satisfaction (Satisfação dos clientes)
  • It prevented a client from losing more than 60,000 reais.(Evitou uma closa de mais se 60 mil reais de um cliente)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Undelete, NetApp SnapRestore and Restorepoint

Other Software Used

Bacula Enterprise

The most reliable service when your data seems to be gone

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a long-time professional working on infrastructure, storage, and backup projects, I can attest to the quality of Hosco's services. The professionalism, seriousness, and high level of technical knowledge of the team are complemented by a top-tier technical laboratory, where numerous clients have successfully recovered their data after various types of serious technical problems. I recommend Hosco's work!

Pros

  • Data Recovery
  • Storage Repair
  • Hypervisor Recovery

Cons

  • I would recommend them for consulting in planning storage systems, however I don't know if they do this.

Return on Investment

  • Reputation protection along with the recovered data
  • Financial protection along with the recovered data
  • Legal protection along with the recovered data

Usability

Professionalism in the field of data recovery.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I needed the services of Hosco's staff once. They were attentive and professional. They acted with the necessary composure and discretion. They explained the procedures and costs involved. It was a great help, and I have recommended their services more than once. They are respected professionals. They work with a high degree of complexity on high-cost equipment for medium and large clients. They have evident knowledge in the area of ​​Data Storage and can even help with consulting for the installation of new environments, in addition to recovery.

Eu precisei dos serviços do pessoal da Hosco uma vez. Foram atenciosos e profissionais. Atuaram com a serenidade e a discrição necessária. Explicaram os procedimentos e custos envolvidos. Foi de grande ajuda e já indiquei o serviços deles mais de uma vez. São profissionais de respeito. Trabalham com alto grau de complexidade em equipamentos de alto custo e clientes médios e grandes. Tem evidente conhecimento na área de Armazanamento de Dados e podem até ajudar com consultorias para instalação de novos ambientes, além da recuperação.

Pros

  • Professionalism in handling the matter.
  • Serenity to explain the complexity of the service.
  • Honesty regarding costs and data recovery capabilities.
  • Profissionalismo ao tratar do assunto
  • Serenidade para explicar a complexidade do serviço
  • Sinceridade com os custos e capacidade de recuperação dos dados

Cons

  • Expand the size of the company, as they could take on more services.
  • To provide consulting services for the installation of new environments.
  • A more up-to-date website
  • Ampliar o tamanho da empresa, pois poderiam assumir mais serviços
  • Prestar seviços de consultoria em instalação de novos ambientes
  • Um website mais atual

Return on Investment

  • It helped enormously in recovering data.
  • They worked quickly to minimize the impact.
  • Clear instructions on how to avoid future problems.
  • Ajudou enormemente a recuperar dados
  • Trabalharam rapidamente minimizando impacto
  • Instruções claras de como evitar futuros problemas

Usability