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Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, today has been declared World Backup Day to bring attention to the fact that many of the computers we rely on in our daily lives are not backed up. Since I spend an inordinate amount of my time writing, lecturing and consulting with people about their backup architectures, I'm celebrating World Backup Day, and I hope you are too.
Howard Marks
March 31, 2011

If you back it up to removable media, encrypt your backups. Lost tapes and the like can result in huge liabilities. Ask the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which is now looking at a $300 million notification and identity theft protection bill.

In honor of world backup day, several vendors are offering discounts and contests:

  • Paragon Software is offering 40 percent off its Backup and Recovery Suite with the coupon code ParagonBackup.
  • SpiderOak and Backblaze are offering 10 percent off to new users who enter the code worldbackupday  when signing up.
  • MiMedia is offering 25 percent off with the same code.
  • LiveDrive tweets that it is offering offering 25 percent off products.
  • SpiderOak, Backblaze, MiMedia and CrashPlan are all offering free service to lucky tweeters. See www.worldbackupday.net for details.

I think World Backup Day is a great idea.  Of course, every day should be backup day, even though only Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day.

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