{"id":246,"date":"2010-06-11T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/backup-awareness-month-june-2010\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:37:31","slug":"backup-awareness-month-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backup-awareness-month-june-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup Awareness Month: June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-560x319.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Has it been a year already? It feels like just yesterday I was writing about our last survey with Harris Interactive where we asked how often people backup their computers. Well, it&#8217;s June again and we re-ran the survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news:<\/strong> Fewer people are not doing regular backups (92% now vs. 94% last year).<br \/>\n<strong>Bad news:<\/strong> 92% of people are still not regularly backing up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog-2010-harris-poll-backing-up1.jpg\" alt=\"Backup Frequency\" \/><a id=\"p252\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog-2010-harris-poll-backing-up1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-PaqbKONl\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trend to back up is in the right direction, but has a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>To help, we&#8217;re going to <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-is-giving-away-2-apple-ipads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">give away two Apple iPads<\/a> this month to people who back up with us.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a new computer you&#8217;ve been meaning to get backed up?<br \/>\nAre your parents backing up their computers with all their kid photos on them?<br \/>\nAre you friends backing up their computer?<br \/>\nWhat about your co-workers?<\/p>\n<p>You know how easy it is to start backing up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>1. Visit<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.backblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>and click Start Backing Up.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>2. Enter an email and password.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>3. You&#8217;re done!<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starting your backup takes less time than checking your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it been a year already? It feels like just yesterday I was writing about our last survey with Harris Interactive where we asked how often people backup their computers. Well, it&#8217;s June again and we re-ran the survey. Good news: Fewer people are not doing regular backups (92% now vs. 94% last year). Bad&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backup-awareness-month-june-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backup Awareness Month: June 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","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 v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Join Us for Backup Awareness Month and Win Prizes This June<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Has it been a year already? 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