World Backup Week 2025: Protect Your Treasured Data With MakeUseOf
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Summary
World Backup Day on March 31 is dedicated to reminding people and businesses to back up their data to avoid loss.
Data can be lost in numerous ways including phones and computers being lost or damaged, or storage drives unpredictably failing.
This day reminds people how important backing up data is and why it should be done regularly rather than only once a year.
The 3-2-1 rule states that there should be three copies of data stored on at least two different media types, with one copy stored off-site in the cloud.
Backing up data provides protection from a synced file that may be corrupted or deleted and spreads changes everywhere.
It is important to back up data offsite as well as this provides a backup if a laptop or phone is lost or stolen.
