World Backup Day was started by Ismail Jadun, who started the annual campaign in 2011 to recognize the importance of trustworthy backups. People and organizations can take the. I have been writing annually about this event to encourage people to have good backups of their digital content. Backing up your digital data helps prevent it from going away. Digital material can be corrupted, the storage media can be damaged and various other misfortunes can cause you to lose your digital life.
Today, I do regular backups to a local external storage device for two computers in two locations, synchronize data files between those two computers through the cloud and have a separate regular backup to a cloud backup application, Backblaze. I hope that these levels of backups will help me keep my data for when I need it. Many storage experts recommend that you have three different backups on at least two types of media.