What is the backup day associated with? World Backup Day

Daily work with a computer requires that files, especially documents, be kept safe and sound. Reports on the work done, articles, presentations, photos, necessary contacts - all this should be copied onto additional storage media, for example, flash cards - you never know what can happen... Suffice it to remember the “black” comedy “Duplex”, where the work of the main character, money spent on creating the book was wasted “thanks” to a vile neighbor, through whose efforts the writer’s laptop ended up first in a blazing fireplace, and then under the wheels of a car. Backing up information is of great importance, so every year on March 31 the planet celebrates the protection of information from loss.

history of the holiday

The need to establish such an extraordinary holiday as Backup Day has been long overdue.: since the Internet appeared and spread throughout the world. Users of the virtual space constantly post videos, photos, and posts on various resources in huge quantities, many of which are of cultural value. It is not for nothing that some time ago representatives of the UNESCO organization adopted the “Charter for the Preservation of the World Heritage,” where the central theme was the digital information fund. In other words, the importance of the electronic version of the diverse information entering the World Wide Web has been recognized at the international level.

Backup Day arose with the participation of interested people “from the people”- users of the news resource "Reddit". The date March 31 was chosen due to a strange April Fools' pattern: on April Fool's Day, as a rule, there are countless virus attacks aimed at causing malfunctions in the functioning of computers, up to the complete loss of information. Hence, the main task of World Backup Day is to draw the attention of the world community to the importance of the role of backup in the full-fledged work of both individual PC users and entire organizations, because if the functions of the computer software and equipment as a whole are disrupted, there is a colossal saving in time spent on data recovery .

Backup features

What is backup, we figured it out for you. However, the following should be understood: backup includes two operations - the actual duplication of information and its restoration within the framework of the previous or new computer system. The advantages of this process are low cost and high speed of reconstruction of lost data.

There are a lot of ways to store copied information. Popular removable media include DVDs and CDs, USB devices, tape drives, and FTP servers. There are also a lot of backup systems today, and they are divided into software for large, small and single PCs. The assortment, as you can see, is very rich. But before you choose one or another type of backup, check whether the provided software meets certain requirements that are usually required for any backup system. Here are the most valuable of them:

• Automatic operation mode – the less user interaction required, the better.
• Guaranteed data safety.
• Minimum investment of time and mental effort on installing and learning the functions of backup software.

When you start using a backup system, pay attention to some important points. For example, daily monitoring of the stable, error-free process of duplicating and storing information in a safe place, protecting databases, correctly setting the time period allotted for backup, viewing system reports on completed operations, etc. Do not forget that a computer is just a machine , therefore, no matter how automated and streamlined the backup process is, failures have a right to life even within the framework of specialized software designed to save files.

Types of backup

Depending on how much information is duplicated and stored, as well as the method of backing up files, there are several types of backup. Let's look at the most basic ones.

• Full Backup or full backup– is carried out in relation to the entire system of files located on a computer or on a website as a whole. It is recommended to “run” this operation at least every month, optimally once a week.
• Differential Backup or differential backup. The popularity of this type of backup is gaining momentum, which is easily explained: if a file has been corrected after a full backup of the data system has been made, it is duplicated again.

• Incremental Backup or incremental backup. Another name for this type is incremental backup. The principle of operation here is slightly different than in the previous version: only files that have been changed since the last backup are duplicated by the system. Moreover, the documents or photos you edited are saved in an updated form, without being a replacement for the original ones.
• An interesting method of display duplication of the hard drive, which is a kind of “filming” of the latter and copying information in this form onto a medium or server intended for storing data, in parts.
• The file-by-file method, on the contrary, meticulously “photographs” all files separately and saves them to additional devices or servers.

You can easily select the type of backup that best suits your needs and work characteristics.

International Backup Day It is good because it is celebrated not by a limited category of people, as happens, for example, with the professional holiday of computer scientists, programmers and hosting providers, but by all those who deal with computer work every day. As a result, on March 31, you can give something useful to a friend, a colleague, a sister, and, of course, to yourself. The gift must be directly related to the backup. Buy a basic flash drive and copy the most important files stored on the main drive onto it - you will no longer be considered at risk. It’s better to install a high-quality program on your computer so that your nerves are in perfect order. After all, right after Backup Day comes April 1: you understand, jokes can sometimes upset you to tears...

The social network Facebook offers us a number of convenient features, including a friends birthday calendar with notifications, with which you will never forget to congratulate your loved ones on their holiday. But at the same time, this social network is the biggest devourer of our time, as we have already mentioned more than once. If you decide to keep your interactions with Facebook to a minimum, you don't have to give up the useful features it offers. This article will teach you how to transfer your friends' birthday calendar from Facebook to Google Calendar.

1. Go to Facebook and find the link in the left navigation column Events In chapter Applications.

2. You will see a list of all upcoming events and birthdays of your friends. Turn on the mode Calendar using the switch on top.

3. In the upper right corner near the button Today click on the gear and select the item in the menu Export.

Webcal://www.facebook.com/ical/b.php?uid=xxxxxxxxxxx&key=XXXXXXXXXX

5. Open Google Calendar and in the left column in the section Other calendars click on the arrow of the additional menu, in which we select the item Add by URL.

6. Paste the copied calendar address and in a couple of seconds the birthdays of your Facebook friends will appear in your calendar. You can change the name and color of this calendar as usual, and enable notifications of upcoming events by email, SMS, or pop-up window. This way, you can receive reminders about events from Facebook to your mailbox, phone or other device without having to install clients for this social network.

Daily work with a computer requires that files, especially documents, be kept safe and sound. Reports on the work done, articles, presentations, photos, necessary contacts - all this should be copied onto additional storage media, for example, flash cards - you never know what can happen... Suffice it to remember the “black” comedy “Duplex”, where the work of the main character, money spent on creating the book was wasted “thanks” to a vile neighbor, through whose efforts the writer’s laptop ended up first in a blazing fireplace, and then under the wheels of a car. Backing up information is of great importance, so every year on March 31 the planet celebrates the protection of information from loss.

history of the holiday

The need to establish such an extraordinary holiday as Backup Day has been long overdue.: since the Internet appeared and spread throughout the world. Users of the virtual space constantly post videos, photos, and posts on various resources in huge quantities, many of which are of cultural value. It is not for nothing that some time ago representatives of the UNESCO organization adopted the “Charter for the Preservation of the World Heritage,” where the central theme was the digital information fund. In other words, the importance of the electronic version of the diverse information entering the World Wide Web has been recognized at the international level.

Backup Day arose with the participation of interested people “from the people”- users of the news resource "Reddit". The date March 31 was chosen due to a strange April Fools' pattern: on April Fool's Day, as a rule, there are countless virus attacks aimed at causing malfunctions in the functioning of computers, up to the complete loss of information. Hence, the main task of World Backup Day is to draw the attention of the world community to the importance of the role of backup in the full-fledged work of both individual PC users and entire organizations, because if the functions of the computer software and equipment as a whole are disrupted, there is a colossal saving in time spent on data recovery .

Backup features

What is backup, we figured it out for you. However, the following should be understood: backup includes two operations - the actual duplication of information and its restoration within the framework of the previous or new computer system. The advantages of this process are low cost and high speed of reconstruction of lost data.

There are a lot of ways to store copied information. Popular removable media include DVDs and CDs, USB devices, tape drives, and FTP servers. There are also a lot of backup systems today, and they are divided into software for large, small and single PCs. The assortment, as you can see, is very rich. But before you choose one or another type of backup, check whether the provided software meets certain requirements that are usually required for any backup system. Here are the most valuable of them:

• Automatic operation mode – the less user interaction required, the better.
• Guaranteed data safety.
• Minimum investment of time and mental effort on installing and learning the functions of backup software.

When you start using a backup system, pay attention to some important points. For example, daily monitoring of the stable, error-free process of duplicating and storing information in a safe place, protecting databases, correctly setting the time period allotted for backup, viewing system reports on completed operations, etc. Do not forget that a computer is just a machine , therefore, no matter how automated and streamlined the backup process is, failures have a right to life even within the framework of specialized software designed to save files.

Types of backup

Depending on how much information is duplicated and stored, as well as the method of backing up files, there are several types of backup. Let's look at the most basic ones.

• Full Backup or full backup– is carried out in relation to the entire system of files located on a computer or on a website as a whole. It is recommended to “run” this operation at least every month, optimally once a week.
• Differential Backup or differential backup. The popularity of this type of backup is gaining momentum, which is easily explained: if a file has been corrected after a full backup of the data system has been made, it is duplicated again.

• Incremental Backup or incremental backup. Another name for this type is incremental backup. The principle of operation here is slightly different than in the previous version: only files that have been changed since the last backup are duplicated by the system. Moreover, the documents or photos you edited are saved in an updated form, without being a replacement for the original ones.
• An interesting method of display duplication of the hard drive, which is a kind of “filming” of the latter and copying information in this form onto a medium or server intended for storing data, in parts.
• The file-by-file method, on the contrary, meticulously “photographs” all files separately and saves them to additional devices or servers.

You can easily select the type of backup that best suits your needs and work characteristics.

International Backup Day It is good because it is celebrated not by a limited category of people, as happens, for example, with the professional holiday of computer scientists, programmers and hosting providers, but by all those who deal with computer work every day. As a result, on March 31, you can give something useful to a friend, a colleague, a sister, and, of course, to yourself. The gift must be directly related to the backup. Buy a basic flash drive and copy the most important files stored on the main drive onto it - you will no longer be considered at risk. It’s better to install a high-quality program on your computer so that your nerves are in perfect order. After all, right after Backup Day comes April 1: you understand, jokes can sometimes upset you to tears...

March 31 is an unofficial holiday - Backup Day (World Backup Day). This day was established to attract public attention to the issues of ensuring the safety of information and protection against data loss.

A backup is a backup copy of all the files you need, for example, emails, documents, videos, family photos, etc. Instead of storing all important information on one medium, which cannot be guaranteed to be 100% reliable, another copy is placed on additional media .

To avoid losing important information, you only need to set up backup once. As an additional storage medium for backing up your most important data, you can use either a physical disk (external drive) or cloud data storage on the Internet. If you have never made a backup before, March 31 is the best day to do it for the first time. Who chose this date and why?

Today there are many different approaches and programs that provide a competent backup system. How to organize this process is up to each user.

But you shouldn’t let the situation take its course and assume that this problem will never affect you. Everything is possible - from man-made problems, technical failures and equipment failure to accidental deletion of files or the introduction of a malicious virus.

Protect yourself from force majeure and back up your important information today!

Backup is the process of creating a copy of data on a medium designed to restore information if the original medium is damaged. Today, people all over the world - system administrators, Enikey specialists and ordinary users - are celebrating World Backup Day. The date was not chosen by chance - some of the viruses are activated on April 1, leaving unprotected users in the cold on April Fools' Day.

How did bloggers celebrate backup day?

1500py470 I remembered the oath of the defender of information:

International Backup Day (in their barbarian – ) is held annually on March 31st. Backup Day was messed up by Reddit users, and since cases of information loss on April 1 are widely known (Such cute “jokes”. It’s just some kind of holiday!) - there is a whole group of April Fool’s viruses that are activated on this day for greater joy on one of our main and favorite national holidays, and therefore it was no coincidence that this labor holiday, like a cleanup day, was scheduled for March 31, and not April 22 (for slow-witted people or those who missed it because of their youth, this is Ilyich’s birthday and the festive communist cleanup day on this occasion)

Protect yourself
Back up your important information today!

“I solemnly swear on March 31st to make a backup of all the documents and valuable memories I need.”

In addition, I will tell my friends and family about International Backup Day - a friend will not leave a friend without a backup!

rhunwolf I made a selection of pictures and facts about backup:

The computer froze, the hard drive died, what should I do?! Did you make a backup (and did you move away from it)? What, it might explode?!!
There is a play on words here: backup is a backup, back up is to retreat.

We make backup copies of data on sticky notes. Because they don't freeze.

I didn't make a backup...

My backup crashed!!! What a blessing that the data was saved on the main copy!

Jim simply drew a backup of his PC.

A little from English Wikipedia:
On May 5, 1996, during a fire at the headquarters of Crédit Lyonnais, the largest bank in Paris, system administrators ran into the burning building to save tape backups since the copies were physically located in the same building. Data from computers was copied onto magnetic tapes, which were stored there, on the computers, until the next backup. Backups were made every day, with the exception of Friday, because Friday's backup took place on Sunday. And it’s bad luck that the fire happened on Saturday. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/18.14.html#subj3 - Crédit Lyonnais errors are discussed here and all sorts of backup tips are provided.

Between 2005 and 2006, the human rights organization Privacy Rights Clearinghouse recorded 16 cases of stolen or missing backup copies. Among the affected organizations were: Bank of America, Ameritrade, Citigroup and Time Warner.

On January 3, 2008, the mail server of the largest Scandinavian provider, the telecommunications company TeliaSonera, crashed. To their horror, they discovered that the last working backup had the date December 15, 2007. This affected 300,000 user email accounts.

On February 27, 2011, as a result of a software glitch in Gmail, 0.02% of users lost all their mail. After a few hours, the data was restored from a backup copy and the messages did not disappear into oblivion.

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ammo1 organized a competition!

Today, March 31st, is International Backup Day. It was no coincidence that Backup Day was set for March 31, because there is a whole group of April Fools’ viruses that play their “pranks” on April Fool’s Day.

There can be many reasons for losing important information. According to the study, 78% of cases are caused by hardware failure, 11% human error, 7% software errors, 2% Computer viruses, 1% Natural disasters, 1% Other causes.

Another sad statistic. 5% of hard drives fail in the first year. Then for 2-3 years they work relatively stably (probability of failure is 1.5%), and after the third year the probability is already 11-12%.

Let's celebrate backup day by making copies of your important data today, without putting it off, as usual, “until tomorrow.”