It's World Backup Day

1sockchuck writes "Today is World Backup Day, an occasion to back up your personal data and financial information and check your restores. For those needing motivation — a group that apparently includes 15 percent of data centers — the Slashdot archives bear witness to date disasters at providers small (Ma.gnolia) and large (Microsoft). The World Backup Day initiative grew out of a thread at Reddit, and invites online backup services to observe the occasion by offering discounts."

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Every day should be world backup day

[PolygamousRanchKid]

I constantly get calls from folks I don't know like this:

Them: "Hi, you don't know me, but I'm a friend of your milkman's, newspaper boy's, dogsitter . . . they all told me that you are, like real smart with computers. Mine won't start . . . it seems to start, but then the disk screams, and nothing happens.

Me: "Ok, when did you make your last backup?"

Them: "What's a backup?"

Me: "Ok, do you know your administrator password?"

Them: "There is no one here named administrator."

The sad fact, is that I cave in, and go over to help them out.

Re:Every day should be world backup day

[syousef]

If you don't know them, you should be charging an hourly rate, even if it is a token one. If you don't need/want the work, or responsibility that goes with accepting money, or can't due to other employment arrangements, just plain refuse.

My company already has a backup day,

[TejWC]

its called "Friday".