International Backup Day (Backup Day) (31/03)

International Backup Day. World Backup Day or Backup Day is held annually on March 31st.

Backup (backup) — is the creation of a copy of important data (for example, family photos, videos, documents and emails) on a medium (hard drive, flash card, CD and other media) designed to restore data in the event of damage or loss on the main medium.

In this age of computers and electronics, ensuring the safety of meaningful information is becoming increasingly important. Loss of financial information, databases or site information can lead to big problems in the organization and significantly hit your wallet«. And every individual user of a home computer, communicator or simple cell phone can get a lot of grief by losing the necessary — data from favorite photos, home videos or necessary articles to contact numbers and addresses. Therefore, instead of storing them in one place (for example, on your computer), you place another copy of all important information in a reliable repository.

Therefore, International Backup Day is precisely designed to draw public attention to the issues of ensuring the preservation of information, as well as to disseminate information about the need to protect against data loss.

Backup Day was established on the initiative of users of the social news site Reddit and was not accidentally set for March 31. In the computer environment, there are known cases of loss of information on April 1 (these are the « jokes») — there is even a whole group of April Fool's viruses that become active on this very day. The result of their merciless action is a system failure or loss of information.

Today, there are many different approaches, tools and programs that provide a competent backup system. How to organize this process — the business of each user. You can carry out the relevant actions yourself or contact specialists on this issue.

But don’t let the situation take its course and assume that this problem will never affect you. Everything is possible — from man-made problems, technical failures and equipment failure to accidental deletion of files or the introduction of a malicious virus, and sometimes simply the loss of your phone.

Therefore, today’s holiday can be celebrated in a very simple way —, create a backup copy of your data from your computer and save it on a reliable resource. And, of course, tell all your friends and acquaintances about this so that they do the same.

Protect yourself from force majeure and back up significant information today!



• Infographics – poster «March 31 — International Backup Day (Backup Day)»

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