Today we’re celebrating the glorious World Backup Day! An important, holy holiday in which we ensure that we backup all of our digital data. What a day to celebrate!
Show Notes
- History + fun facts about the holiday
- August 2005—Maxtor, (was) a hard disk drive company, introduced “World Backup Month”
- 2011—Ismail Jadun created World Backup day on March 31 each year
- Started with a Reddit post on the r/reddit subreddit by u/adamjeff This spawned the decision to make the date 3/31, the launch of the website and Twitter account
- Tagline is “Don’t be an April fool”—back up your files before it’s too late
- Social media accounts (FB, Twitter) have all been quiet since April 1, 2017, though it appears that you can still take the World Backup Day pledge on either of these sites via worldbackupday.com
- Shares “I solemnly swear to backup my important documents and precious memories on March 31st” to the respective timeline
- From Forbes: “’Backing Up’ refers to keeping at least one copy of your computer files backed up in a device other than your internal storage” via USB, thunderbolt HDD, cloud service
- A number of companies have taken to offering discounts for backup equipment and services. Amazon offered 11 deals in 2018 alone
- Why you should back up–We have LOTS of stats
- According to worldbackupday.com and billpetro.com 30% of people have never backed up
- 25% do regular backups
- 89% own a mobile phone (6.7b/7.5b)
- 113 phones are lost or stolen every minute (162,720/day of 6.7 billion= .0024%)
- 83% own a computer (6.25b)
- 1 in 10 computers are infected with viruses each month (62.5m)
- 60M computers will fail this year
- 29% of disasters are caused by accident
- 32% of data loss is due to human error… or cockpit error, or that space between the seat back and the keyboard
- According to Acronis, a global technology company, conducted an internet population survey in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, and Japan in mid-March 2018. The survey looked at two general areas: general backup topics, and specific questions about ransomware awareness
- On backing up overall:
- 31.4 percent acknowledged they do not back up their personal data
- 35.7 percent of respondents said that they or a family member had lost data
- 47.2 percent reported when they do back up, they use the cloud as a backup destination
- On Ransomware
- 41.8 percent of respondents said they have never heard of ransomware – and while that is a huge number, that is a more than 20 percent improvement from 2017
- 56 percent understand that ransomware can hijack your system and destroy files
- 6.9 percent are willing to pay more than $140 to recover their lost data
- They didn’t note how many participants they actually surveyed
- On backing up overall:
- Examples from Lifewire Your phone gets stolen, and you lose all your pictures and videos
- According to worldbackupday.com and billpetro.com 30% of people have never backed up
- An external hard drive crashes, deleting your home videos
- Your forget your laptop in a café and you’ve lost all your homework
- A virus holds your data hostage until you pay to remove the restraints
- You accidentally delete something important
Activities to celebrate
- From National Today:
- Copy your files to an external hard drive: set aside 15 minutes to an hour to back up all of the existing files on your desktop, laptop or pc. Simply purchase a hard drive of your liking – we recommend 1TB drives or more – and copy your files to the drive
- Play in the cloud: Can’t buy a hard drive in time? No worries! There are plenty of companies that specialize in storing your documents online. Do your research and figure out which service works best for you. We recommend the Google Cloud, WMware Storage or Barracuda Cloud Storage, but they are all great!
- Back that thing up party: Invite all the employees on your team to back up their files with one of the methods above. This will create a safer culture among your staff and prevent any projects from slipping through the crack. The last thing you need is a client asking for a file that was wrongfully discarded.
- Lifewire provides a ranked, updated list of online backup services reviews, along with prices, as well as links to free online backup services and cloud storage services
Playlist
Sources
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2018/04/01/world-backup-day-2018/#4fadc024a97c
- https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g9tkq/i_propose_we_have_a_backup_day_a_day_when/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/ga5yg/help_make_world_backup_day_a_reality_tell_us_your/
- https://www.facebook.com/WorldBackupDay/
- http:// https://twitter.com/worldbackupday?lang=en
- https://www.lifewire.com/world-backup-day-2617949
- http:// https://billpetro.com/history-of-world-backup-day
- https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/world-backup-day-2018-survey-results