Really — backups, whether to USB drive or to a cloud service like my beloved +Backblaze, are so brainlessly easy these days, that if you aren't doing them, you deserve nothing but finger-pointing and laughing mockery when your drive inevitably dies a horrible, spinning death.
Really.
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10% of people back up their data on a daily basis -> http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/06/27/the-survey-says-apathy-is-winning-2/# Help us get those numbers up higher! #backup
Backblaze Blog » The Survey Says: Apathy is Winning
Why is Yev so sad? Is it because Backup Awareness month is nearly over? No. You see we just got back the results from our annual State of User Data Backup survey and the results made him sad. Let me explain. Each year for the past 6 years we’ve asked the folks at Harris Interactive to conduct …
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After we lost an external hard drive with a ton of data, we started using Backblaze. We haven't needed it yet, but I'm glad it's there. Data that doesn't exist in at least two places doesn't exist at all.
Yes, yes, yes, +Brittany Constable.
I've used BB (a) in the case of a catastrophic drive failure, (b) to pull down some individual files from my home PC that I needed elsewhere, and (c) to help migrate to a new laptop. Worth every penny.