1. A data handling system comprising: a compressive sensing unit configured to receive a source date file, and comprising a sparseness module configured to generate a sparse source data file by inducing sparseness into the source data file, and a measurement module configured to generate a compressed sensed source data file from the sparse source data file and based on a sensing matrix, the compressed sensed source data file configured to be transmitted to a remote data storage facility for storage; and a recovery unit configured to recover the source data file from the compressed sensed source data file retrieved from the remote data storage facility and based upon the sensing matrix.