It's World Backup Day, have you secured your data?

[Jesse]

Day before April Fools, so get on it....

It's World Backup Day, have you secured your data?


While it's technically not an official holiday, World Backup Day is definitely something we should all celebrate. Don't put off the festivities and secure your data before it's too late!

World Backup Day an initiative dreamed up by a small team of users from social news website Reddit. It was created to serve as a reminder of how important data backups are ? and to guide those who have never gone through the motions of securing their files:

Once a year is not frequent enough for backing up data. World Backup Day was created to spread awareness and to get those who have never backed up data to start. Once you learn how easy it is, you can do it anytime you want.

Ok ok, securing files is important ? everyone's constantly badgering you about that. But you've never had anything bad happen in all the years that you've used a computer. That means there's no point in bothering with this whole spiel, right?
Wrong.
As the World Backup Day site explains, your computer's hard drive ? the part where all your data is kept ? is the computer component most likely to break down unexpectedly:

There are a number of ways a hard drive can fail. A head crash is exactly what it sounds like: when the read / write head (the "needle") crashes into the hard drive platter, ruining the drive. The actuator arm can break, so that the arm can't move around and read data. The electrical components inside can fail, the drive could become corrupted etc.

Furthermore, the hard drive is the only part of the computer that can be damaged by software (without even physically touching the drive).Viruses, malware and accidental deletion can all damage the data on a hard drive. Though this data can sometimes be recovered, the easiest solution is to back up data on the drive before it becomes an issue.

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Jesse Reviewed by Jesse on 31st Mar 2011. It's World Backup Day, have you secured your data? Day before April Fools, so get on it.... It's World Backup Day, have you secured your data? While it's technically not an official holiday, World Backup Day is definitely something we should all celebrate. Don't put off the festivities and secure your data before it's too late! World Backup Day an initiative dreamed up by a small team of users from social news website Reddit. It was created to serve as a reminder of how important data backups are ? and to guide those who have never Rating: 5

[-zAAz-]

I've just taken backup of ma site

[CyberAff]

let me save KWWH Backup Data thanks

[maloxi]

no i never do backups. and everytime that i lose my datas i start to be angry and i need to smoke weed to relax...

[XForce!]

Well I loosed every data in PC yesterday
Now I think I should take back up of my Empty PC