{"id":128,"date":"2009-06-01T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/june-is-backup-awareness-month\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:15:18","slug":"june-is-backup-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/june-is-backup-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"June Is Backup Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/blog_post_nikon.jpg\" alt=\"Backup Awareness Month\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">For Backup Awareness Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backblaze<\/a> conducted its second annual user backup study. Well, we still have a ways to go as only 6% of consumers are doing regular backups.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate Backup Awareness Month, continue spreading the message, and get people backing up their computers, we are giving away a <strong>Free One-Year Subscription<\/strong> to Backblaze every single day this month.<\/p>\n<p>And at the end of the month, Backblaze is going to randomly select one of the daily winners to win a new Nikon Coolpix P90 camera. Moreover, to help the people who helped their friends and family backup&#8230; if someone referred the winner of the Nikon camera\u2014they will win a Nikon Coolpix P90 camera as well.<\/p>\n<p>Entering is simple: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just install the free trial<\/a> and start backing up your computer.<br \/>\nWe will randomly select one winner per day!<\/p>\n<p>Already backing up with Backblaze? Help a friend start backing up! Do it in person, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backblaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backblaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, or shout from the rooftops. It&#8217;s good karma and you could win a cool camera.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who have previously installed are not eligible.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll be emailing winners every few days.<\/li>\n<li>Share this with your friends so you don&#8217;t end up as their <a href=\"\/blog\/have-you-been-a-data-crisis-counselor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data crisis counselor<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Backup Awareness Month, Backblaze conducted its second annual user backup study. Well, we still have a ways to go as only 6% of consumers are doing regular backups. To celebrate Backup Awareness Month, continue spreading the message, and get people backing up their computers, we are giving away a Free One-Year Subscription to Backblaze&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/june-is-backup-awareness-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June Is Backup Awareness Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-backup-awareness-month","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Reminder That June Is Backup Awareness Month: Are You Protected?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For Backup Awareness Month, Backblaze conducted its second annual user backup study. 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