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Exposed Nation: Statistics on the Unprotected Masses
According to a recent Maxtor/Harris Interactive poll, almost 90% of US adults know they should back up the data on their computers, but few do it frequently or regularly.
In fact, the study showed that although computer hard drives contain more data today than ever before, about one-third of US adults dont back up their data at all, and around three quarters of those who do make a backup copy dont do it often enough. Listed below are some of the interesting data from this survey, which polled 2,300 U.S. adults in late July of this year.
Frequency of backups:
42% said they did it once a year
31% reported monthly backups
12% weekly, and just...
15% reported performing daily backups
These are interesting numbers, as 44% of those surveyed said that they had lost data in the past due to a computer virus, hardware or software malfunction or other event.
Data that respondents feared losing the most:
27% said financial data and business records
24% reported personal photos and videos
17% said contact information such as addresses and phone numbers
16% said personal written documents and emails. Surprisingly, only...
4% of those surveyed listed downloaded music and/or video files as high-value data.
Top reasons cited for not backing up data:
44% cited lack of technical knowledge about the process
21% of those surveyed felt that backing up wasn't important
20% said it took too much time
11% said that they didn't know they had to do it, which means that at the very least awareness of backing up data is high.
Source: The RBS News, October 2005.
Reprinted with permission of Remote Backup Systems, Inc.