Areas we cover · Battle, TN33
Data recovery in Battle. A large parish, two big schools, a High Street of small firms.
Battle is a small town inside a large parish — 31.8 square kilometres at 194 people to each one, and about 6,800 residents at the 2021 census. The station is on the Hastings line and the road west runs to the coast first. Its computing is heritage, two substantial schools, farms and a High Street of small practices. Each of those drives leaves Battle the same way — a tracked parcel, priced like every Brighton case, diagnosed free on arrival.
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What comes in from Battle.
Something else? Run the triage →| The problem as described | Why it's a local regular | First thing we do |
|---|---|---|
| A heritage collection's image and document archive | Interpretation media, digitised records and the photography around the MLXVI Tapestry | Named priorities, written scope |
| A boarding school's records between terms | 459 pupils from 0 to 18, with boarding at Leeford Lodge | Confidential, returned on fresh media |
| A farm's accounts and field mapping after a power cut | Land records and subsidy paperwork, on one machine in one office | Board gone, platters generally readable |
| A High Street practice's client files | Solicitors, surveyors and accountants working off a single server | Chain of custody kept in writing |
| A photographer's card from a visitor weekend | 1066 Country counted 13.50m visits in 2022, and cards fill up accordingly | Card out, nothing new written |
How a Battle job runs.
Asked in Battle, answered here.
Battle is not on the East Coastway. Does that matter?
Only to trains. The station sits on the Hastings line between Crowhurst and Robertsbridge, and by rail the way west goes through Hastings, then Bexhill, Eastbourne, Polegate and Lewes. A tracked parcel skips every one of those and arrives the following working morning.
Can you read a memory card the camera calls corrupt?
Usually. A format rewrites the card's index and leaves the pictures where they were, and "corrupt" is generally a damaged file structure sitting on top of perfectly good images. One thing decides it: nothing new written to that card after the fault.
Our school needs a quote the finance office can process. How does that work?
Free diagnosis, then one written figure settled before any work begins, with a plain description of what is read and what comes back. That is enough for a purchase order, and nothing gets added to it afterwards.
Do you come out to Battle for a server?
Nobody travels and there is no van. A server or a RAID set reaches us stripped to bare disks, every one carrying a bay label; a NAS can be sent whole in its own case. Ring first if the kit is awkward and we will agree how to pack it.
More to read from Battle.
Battle to the bench, by tracked parcel.
Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.