World Backup Day 2022 — MacSources

World Backup Day is the time to secure your digital data.

The past couple of years have changed how the world works and now more than ever before, entire workforces are tied to their computers. This ends up poses a lot of challenges — especially for IT managers who look out for the safety and security of the data they manage. It’s World Backup Day once again and it’s a good time to rethink or start your backup strategy.

What is World Backup Day?

World Backup Day is a social movement designed to help people remember to create a backup strategy for themselves or their business. The day was started in 2011 by Ismail Jadun, a digital consultant, who saw a post on Reddit about a user who lost their hard drive. That user said that they wished someone had reminded them to make a backup. Jadun then thought having a global day for everyone to be reminded to make a backup of their data was a good idea. He chose March 31 because it’s the day before April Fool’s Day — and only a fool would forget to backup their data.

The concept spread quickly through social media and now WorldBackupDay.com is a place for people to learn the importance of backups as well as take the March 31st pledge to create a backup. The pledge reads, “ I solemnly swear to backup my important…