Store, can't be postponed: The Best Way to Celebrate International Backup Day

A few years ago, two Reddit users launched a comic thread — allegedly on that day a certain "world backup day" was celebrated. Everyone was encouraged to make copies of their computer data on separate devices.

A couple of years later, the backup Day (from the English backup — make a copy, protect) it began to gain mass popularity. Every year on March 31, computer geeks and vigilant PC users urge friends and family not to neglect common sense and not to forget to update backups of their digital devices.

We tell you how it is possible (and necessary!) to "celebrate" the International Backup Day, so as not to lose all your intimate data and not be made a fool of on April 1.

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What is a data backup? This is when you take the contents of your computer or smartphone, make a copy and transfer it to another place for storage. Your data is everything that is stored on your digital device: from personal photos and work presentations to the latest version of your resume that you have worked so hard on.

You can lose data at one moment, and it will not necessarily be your fault. About half of all users have lost their data at least once as a result of an accident or by mistake. Theft of a computer, a short circuit during which your laptop was connected to a charger, viruses or a targeted cyber attack on the servers of the company where you work — the list of risks is growing faster than android updates are released.

Everyone remembers the sensational cases of recent years about how famous actresses had their devices hacked and intimate photos leaked online, and hackers seized so much internal information from Sony that the corporation suffered losses of $ 11 billion.

Every year, the number of threats is only growing — in 2017, 100 billion more photos were stolen than in 2016. Most often, extortionists simply demand money in exchange for the return of data or threaten to make the information publicly available.

Even if attackers bypass you, there is a high probability that your hard drive will sooner or later start losing files from wear or you will simply spill water on your computer — such nonsense accounts for 30 percent of all data loss cases. Overnight, you can lose all family photos, wedding videos, or the memory of how your child went to school for the first time.

Even 20 years ago, creating a backup was a time-consuming and time-consuming process of transferring files to an external physical medium. Many people still prefer to use an additional hard drive, but thanks to the development of technologies in the field of data storage and encryption, today it takes a minimum of effort to stop worrying about the safety of information.

Acronis offers cloud solutions: in just a few clicks, your data is uploaded to cloud storage and securely encrypted — last year alone, the company repelled more than 200 thousand external attacks. If you are in business and you have a huge database, it is very likely to be an easy target for scammers — you can subscribe to the corporate option and keep your data safe. And even provide employees with a convenient archive for working with data.

Backup is no longer paranoia among programmers. Most people know what a backup is, but they are simply too lazy to do it. Today there can be no excuses for this — it is not difficult to protect your data at all: thanks to modern offers on the market, this can be done in a few clicks on any device.

Every user has something to lose — extortionists can gain access to any information if they set themselves such a goal. The only way not to worry about this is to store a reliable copy of the data on an external server, or even better, in the cloud. The easiest way to get started is to celebrate March 31 by making a backup so as not to be made a fool of on April 1!