Data Recovery and Garageband Projects

Has anyone had to recover data from a faulty hard-drive that was erased? Have any of your files been garageband projects? Were you able to recover them? What program do you recommend?
I have used Data Rescue II but everything comes out totally unarchived and I am unable to locate my very important garageband project files.
Kind of off topic, but I could use some help.

Depending on what AV or backup or whatever you use then you have to develop the content to use that.
Example:
If you need to enable "Don's Backup Service" it might be as simple as a CLI command at a command prompt like
C:\>dbs_install.exe -silent
Or maybe it's a web service call to some deployment application, or maybe (like Derek says) it's some configuration management system.
The way you determine to deploy something is totally up to you and your IT and application infrastructure. It's hard to provide you examples when there is no knowledge of what you have running. You have to write the content and test it out.
I find(when writing my content) the best way to do it is to write down the steps you would do manually and then make that in CPO in a process or a few processes. If you want to see some examples and ideas about custom content authoring I do a monthly blog on custom content development @
https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/data-center/intelligent_automation?view=blog
Futhermore if you wanted someone to write it for you, that's more of an Advanced Services thing and you would want to contact them.
--Shaun Roberts
[email protected]
CIAC Adoption Pilot Engineering Lead

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