43% of computer users don’t back up
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From ClickZ
"The data that’s most precious to them centers mostly on financial information and home pictures," said Alan Hanson, senior product manager at Symantec. "Typically, an average customer is taking pictures of vacation and baby’s first steps, and those things are all stored on their hard drive."
Fifty-one percent of those who store data on their computer regularly back up data stored on their computer. Of the group who backs up data, 29 percent complain it takes too long.
The computer owners who don’t back up data don’t think about it (33 percent) or feel it isn’t important (31 percent). Hansen likens the loss of data, especially a digital address book, to someone throwing their black book into the fireplace 20 years ago. "If it were just gone, people would start from scratch again," he said.
Just because you’re not alone, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t back up!