Good morning! 
It is Wednesday, 31 March 2021 my dudes! 
(W13/D90/275 rem)
Today is: 
World Backup Day
You keep meaning to do it. You keep putting it off. And then unexpected kak happens. And your backups are either horribly out of date, or non-existent.
It’s happened to all of us at some stage of our technology-dependent lives. Whether it’s photos and contacts on stolen phones, documents on a failed hard drive, or corporate data on a lightning damaged server somewhere. And each time it happens, we lament not having solid backups of our data, and vow to never let it happen again. And then we diligently make backups for the next few months, and then slowly fall back into our old habits. Stop doing that already!
World Backup Day is set aside as a reminder to back up your files, even if it’s once a year! A backup is a reserve copy of all the files you’d be loathe to use.
There’s nothing more traumatizing than losing your phone, or having your hard drive crash, and having hundreds of valuable and irreplaceable documents or photos suddenly gone.
No matter how secure or safe you feel your data and equipment is, it’s important to back up your files. 30% of people don’t have any way to save their important files in the event that tragedy strikes. In our electronic based world, there are hundreds of ways to suddenly have things go terribly awry. 29% of all disasters are caused by accidents, costing valuable time and money as the resources they affected are lost forever. You may feel your computer is safe, but 1 in 10 of all computers, including household and business computers, are infected with a virus that may suddenly cause all of your data to be gone beyond retrieval.
“But my phone is always on me!” I hear you say! Wonderful! That’ll make it easier for you to be one of the hundreds of phones stolen every minute, each day. In this modern digital world, many of us live from our phones. Whether it’s for business, or just personal use, these electronic assistants often contain gigs of valuable documents, pictures, videos, and music. Do you really want to chance losing all of that when backup options are so easy and available?
“Easy? How do I backup my files and protect myself?” There ya go! Now we’re asking the right questions!
There are a myriad of ways you can use to backup your files, most phones are connected to some form of backup system. iPhones are tied directly into iTunes, which can back up all of your valuable data, you just need to hook that thing up to your computer and update the files daily! You can even do it as part of charging, just plug it in to your computer, set it to backup, and it’ll go about the process automatically while it takes a charge.
Android phones are intrinsically tied to Google, and with the availability of Google Docs and the Google backup, it’ll tie all of your data in to your profile, uploading it to a secure location while allowing you to choose which ones to share!
Google Docs can also be used to store all of your valuable files online! The bonus here is that from google docs you can access your files from any computer, saving you from having to wait for your system to be back up before you get those important files back!
Go on, do it right now. Many of you are reading this on your phones right now. Go to Settings > Backups and double-check that the automatic backup setting you know you created when you got your phone is still active. And that your backups are being stored on the device being backup! That would be kak pointless!
Visit http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/ for more backup tips and tools. And don’t become an April fool!
Have a data-safe Wednesday, my dudes! 