U.S. Daily Backups Rise 47% in Past Year

An online backup provider, revealed that PC and Mac users are getting serious about backing up their computers.

The 5th annual State of User Data Backup survey determined that 10% of computer users now backup their computers at least daily. This is a 47% increase over 2011. The survey recorded similar improvements for weekly backups and monthly backups as well with increases of 38% and 29% respectively.

These are the best results we've seen since we started tracking data backup 5 years ago . It's great to see that the desire to protect photos, videos, music, and other data is becoming an every day part of using a computer. There is no reason to lose data to a hard drive crash or a stolen or lost computer.

Below summarizes the results when computer users were asked:
"How often do you backup all of the data on your computer?"

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Daily or more	6%	6%	8%	6%	10%
Weekly or more	2%	14%	16%	14%	20%
Monthly or more	26%	27%	30%	27%	36%

The survey also reported that 29% of U.S. computer users have never backed up all their data with adults ages 55 and older being most remiss (35%) and the 18-34 age group being the most diligent (24%).