A SECURE DATA RECOVERY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RELIABLE DATA PROTECTION AND DISASTER RECOVERY
Author
Maheta Karan I., Khuman Ravi K.
Abstract
The increasing dependence on digital information has created a growing need for reliable data protection, secure backup, integrity verification, and rapid recovery after data-loss events. Data may be lost or compromised because of accidental deletion, hardware failure, software faults, unauthorized modification, malware, ransomware, or other disruptive incidents. This research proposes a Secure Data Recovery and Management System that integrates user authentication, encryption, automated backup, cryptographic integrity verification, secure storage, recovery-point management, and controlled restoration within a unified framework. The proposed system is designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of important digital data while reducing recovery time and improving backup visibility. The system maintains multiple recovery points, verifies backup integrity before restoration, and records backup and recovery activities for management and auditing. The proposed architecture can use local, cloud, or hybrid storage and can support incremental backup to improve storage efficiency. The research further proposes performance and security evaluation using recovery time, backup time, recovery success rate, integrity detection, storage efficiency, and resource utilization. The resulting framework is intended to provide a practical foundation for secure and manageable data recovery in personal, academic, and organizational environments.
Keywords
Secure Data Recovery, Data Backup, Data Management, Encryption, Data Integrity, Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery, Access Control, Cryptographic Hashing, Cloud Storage
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