Findings of a global backup survey

A global backup survey, organized by Kabooza, about backup habits, risk factors, worries & data loss of home PCs came out with the following findings. The Kabooza survey was done on 4257 respondents from around 129 countries.

• 82% of home PC users don’t do regular backup.
• 66% have lost pictures & files on their home PC. 42% within 2008.
• 71% are most worried about losing their digital pictures on their home PC.
• 54% of the respondents do not have any backup what so ever for their PC.
• 54% of the respondents see virus as the primary risk factor for their personal data.
  

People neglect their home PC backup needs. Over 82% of the respondents don’t do regular backups. At the same time 66% have had critical data loss. This is alarming and surprising since the risk of losing important pictures or files, due to virus, hard drive crashes, physical damage or theft, is so high.