Are Your Files Safe?Although 67 percent of people say they worry about losing irreplaceable files stored on their PCs, the overwhelming majority are not taking the appropriate steps to prevent loss.
As one survey respondent said, "I'm aware that I need to back up info, but still don't do anything about it."
What Do You Store on Your PC?Photographs - 92.9%
Text Documents - 88.1%
E-mails - 84.1%
Contacts - 77.7%
Work projects or documents - 71.0%
Music - 69.3%
Financial Information - 52.7%
Personal or work calendar - 42.3%
Home videos - 34.8%
How Often Do You Back Up?Never - 20.2%
Less than once a year - 11.7%
About once a year - 14.0%
Every three months - 17.1%
Monthly - 16.1%
Weekly - 11.6%
Once a day - 5.2%
Several times a day - 1.0%
Don't know - 3.2%
Twenty percent of PC users have never backed up the data on their personal computers.
Just 6 percent back up daily.
Nearly half (46 percent) back up once a year or less - leaving 364 days of data susceptible to loss or damage.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize how important backup is until it's too late. And while an infected computer can be replaced, lost photos, records and documents are often unrecoverable.
