{"id":72479,"date":"2017-03-31T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/staging-site\/uncategorized\/today-is-world-backup-day-should-it-be-necessary\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:58:34","slug":"today-is-world-backup-day-should-it-be-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/article\/today-is-world-backup-day-should-it-be-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is World Backup Day &#8211; should it be necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The cinnamon bun, the contradiction, the tortilla chips, the clean water, the toilet, the missed opportunities, the meteors-that-almost-hit-the-earth, and a host of diseases and problems we should be helping each other with &#8211; everything now has a day. So does <em>World<\/em> Backup Day. But is it really needed?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Need is of course relative, and compared to things like clean water, backup is not a necessity for survival and health (except possibly mental, given stress levels).<\/p>\n\n<p>However, data loss was estimated a couple of years ago to cost 1.7 trillion annually and many companies do not recover from a big hit, but actually go under, causing people to lose their jobs. Incidentally, people often lose both memories, which are priceless, and important documents when computers are stolen or broken. <\/p>\n\n<p>So, socio-economically, backup is a pretty big deal, but maybe not one we think about. And it&#8217;s actually good to have a day to do it. A <em>World Backup Day<\/em>, simply.<br\/>So, give backup a thought today. At least your own, and make sure it works. Because you have a backup, right?   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cinnamon bun, the contradiction, the tortilla chips, the clean water, the toilet, the missed opportunities, the meteors-that-almost-hit-the-earth, and a host of diseases and problems we should be helping each other with &#8211; everything now has a day. So does World Backup Day. But is it really needed? Need is of course relative, and compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Blogg_wbd17-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"sgadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/author\/sgadmin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72481,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72479\/revisions\/72481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storegate.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}