{"id":2208,"date":"2012-03-30T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:36:49","slug":"world-backup-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/world-backup-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Backup Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 6px; padding-top: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/world_backup_day-149x300.png\" alt=\"world backup day\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>All hard drives will crash; there is no such thing as a crash-proof hard drive.\u00a0 When (not if) this happens, how much data will be lost is a flip of the coin.\u00a0 It could be 0%, or it could be 100%.\u00a0 World Backup Day is March 31st. and encourages you to maintain current backups of your data: financial information or other important documents, digital media collection (music\/movies\/ebooks), and perhaps most importantly your memories (pictures\/home movies).<\/p>\n<p>One in ten laptops will be stolen in their lifetime; one is stolen every 53 seconds.\u00a0 Fifty percent of all hard drives will crash within five years.\u00a0 Couple those statistics with the fact that 89.1% of PC users do not perform regular backups.\u00a0 This is essentially a recipe for massive data loss.\u00a0 A recent study found that 90 percent of companies that experience data loss go out of business within two years, with 70% of companies going out of business following a major data loss.\u00a0 These are significant numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Are you able to place a dollar amount on your data?\u00a0 Exactly how much value does it have?\u00a0 For many people, their data is priceless.\u00a0 If the only pictures of your children that you have are on a hard drive that crashes, they&#8217;re gone.\u00a0 Forever.\u00a0 Unless you have a small fortune to pay in hopes of having the data professionally recovered.\u00a0 This situation though instantly becomes a non-issue the moment you have a safe backup of the data.\u00a0 Ideally, you&#8217;ll maintain <em>current<\/em> backups of all important data locally and at a remote location.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 1px; padding-top: 5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justcloud.com\/lp\/hostgator\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/just_cloud.png\" alt=\"justcloud backup\" width=\"189\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Texas, where the HostGator offices are, has been hit by both hurricanes and wildfires in recent years.\u00a0 If a computer and the external hard drive that contained the backups are both within a house that is destroyed, that data is gone.\u00a0 This is a catastrophic circumstance regardless, but there are many ways to ensure that even under similar conditions your data will remain safe.\u00a0 HostGator customers are encouraged to visit <a title=\"JustCloud.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justcloud.com\/lp\/hostgator\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/justcloud.com\/hostgator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> for<\/span> a free trial for cloud storage.\u00a0 Come what may, with cloud storage you can be confident that your data remains safe.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a title=\"http:\/\/www.worldbackupday.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbackupday.com\/\">http:\/\/www.worldbackupday.com<\/a> for more information and tips on backing up your data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hard drives will crash; there is no such thing as a crash-proof hard drive.\u00a0 When (not if) this happens, how much data will be lost is a flip of the coin.\u00a0 It could be 0%, or it could be 100%.\u00a0 World Backup Day is March 31st. and encourages you to maintain current backups of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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