Today is backup day — a day I originally thought celebrated the fact that you could back-up. What if you had no reverse gear in your car? Or maybe we should be celebrating by walking around backwards or something like that.
But it’s not one of those frivolous days — turns out this is a very important day. It’s a day set aside every year to to boost awareness for businesses — and individuals — of the importance of regular data backups. Yep, World Backup Day refers to data backups. the goal is to use March 31st as the date each year to reach those who never backed up their data, and even people who might not even know about data backup.
The fact that World Backup Day falls on March 31 is no coincidence. The next day may be about laughs and pranks, but the potential loss of data is no joke.
I admit I don’t backup our computers as regularly as I should, but I do backup our “important” information regularly. Admittedly, backup for our house is pretty simple — we don’t have a huge amount of data — a lot of “stuff” on our computers isn’t something that would invite a ransomware attack. But nonetheless, I’d hate to lose some of it.
World Backup Day was designated, in 2011, by Ismail Jadun, a digital strategy and research consultant…. good idea, Ismail.
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