According to a recent short informal survey on personal information management from among my blog readers and (almost 100 respondents), most have a somewhat ad hoc approach to backing up their personal information.
10% = We don't back-up our home computer.
21% = We occasionally back-up necessary information onto a portable hard drive.
37% = We regularly back-up necessary information onto a portable hard drive.
6% = We occasionally back-up necessary information onto a portable "thumb" drive.
13% = We occasionally back-up necessary information onto a CD-ROM or DVD.
7% = We regularly back-up information onto an on-line service (such as Carbonite or MobileMe)
6% = Other
Thinking about some practices from the enterprise space that should carry over into the personal space, not only should everyone back up their personal systems, but they should do so regularly (not occasionally!) and keep the back-up in a location separate from the PC itself. Ideally, think about a combination of local (and regular) back-up, plus automatic back-up to an external on-line service.
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