{"id":1557,"date":"2012-06-12T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:55:52","slug":"10-now-back-up-daily-90-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/10-now-back-up-daily-90-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"10% Now Back Up Daily, 90% to Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Backup<\/a><\/p>\n

Five Years Worth of Data<\/h2>\n

10% may not seem like a lot, but in the world of online backup<\/a> it\u2019s a milestone. For the last five years, Backblaze has had the folks at Harris Interactive ask \u201cHow often do you backup all the data on your computer?\u201d To our dismay, daily back up of the photos, videos, music, data, and more on people’s computers has languished at 6-8%. But our 2012 survey said 10% now do daily backups, a 47% increase over 2011\u2014woo hoo! Even better, the survey also revealed that weekly backups increased 38% over 2011 and monthly backups increased 29% over 2011. In other words, people are backing up their data more often and that is GREAT news.<\/p>\n

There’s Still Work to Do<\/h2>\n

But all is not rosy in backup land as 29% of computer users have never backed up all the data on their computer (cue scary music here). While 29% is a decrease of 15% over 2011, it is still too high. So we wanted to know why would someone not do daily backups? Amazingly, 59% thought that daily data backups were either too complicated or too expensive, or they just plain forget to do it. Hmmm, so is there a way to backup a computer that is easy to use, affordable, automatic, and continuous?<\/p>\n

Our Challenge for 2013<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s our audacious goal for 2013. Let\u2019s get the percentage of people who backup daily (10% in 2012) to be higher than the percentage of people who don\u2019t backup at all (29% in 2012). Impossible, you say? Let\u2019s try\u2014\u201cno try, do.\u201d How can you help? Give the gift of Backblaze<\/a> to someone you know from the 90% who don’t back up daily. Of course we’ll keep plugging away here and between us we can reach the 2013 goal. Thanks for your help.<\/p>\n

“How ften do you back up all the data on your computer?”<\/h2>\n

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Other Interesting Statistics from the 2012 Survey:<\/h3>\n