World Backup Day!

Ok, I’m not the best at keeping a regular backup of all my stuff, especially when using two or three separate PCs/Laptops.

Who is?

But at least I do it, thanks to automatic software and the experience of having lost relatively low value data over a year ago, the memory lives on…!

So – today is “World Backup Day”, and I didn’t even know it, and furthermore I suspect most of you didn’t either.

It’s just not at the forefront of our minds, and will never be, until it’s too late – some day perhaps.  Unfortunately.

Let’s hope the data loss is trivial….

Some scary statistics for those who don’t backup their files:

• All hard drives will crash during their lifetime
• More than 1 in 10 laptops will be stolen in their lifetime
• A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds
• Every year 46% of computer users lose their music, photos, and documents
• 50% of all hard drives will crash within 5 years
• 89.1% of PC users don’t perform regular backups
• A recent study from Gartner, Inc., found that 90 percent of companies that experience data loss go out of business within two years.
• 70 percent of companies go out of business after a major data loss

So, Backup your digital life before you wish you did!