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Data backup rarely happens, says F-Secure

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By Allan Tan | Oct 22, 2009

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HONG KONG - According to an eight country survey conducted by F-Secure, a considerable amount of people have experienced losing irreplaceable content such as family photos, music collections or crucial work documents. In Sweden 31% of respondents say they have lost irreplaceable content, compared to 34% in the United States, 41% in Italy, 45% in Finland, and 60% in Poland.

“Our international survey shows that close to 40% of computer users have lost irreplaceable content," said Antti Reijonen, vice president, consumer business & marketing, F-Secure. "With so many important aspects of our personal and working lives now stored in digital form, we believe that backing up those files is more important than ever.”

Everyone fears losing important files but in practice, few make regular backups. According to the survey only 56% of the respondents stored or backed up their digital photos.

In all the countries surveyed, the most popular photo storage location remains the computer hard drive. Other storage preferences reveal some interesting variations between the countries. DVDs and CDs are relatively popular storage media in Poland (41%) and the United States (28%) but less so in Italy (18%) and Finland (16%). USB devices are more commonly used for storing photos in Italy (18%) than in Finland, United States and Poland (7%).

External hard drives are much more commonly used for photo storage in Sweden (24%) and Italy (23%) than in the United States (10%) and Poland (5%). In the United States 16% of the survey respondents use the memory cards on the camera while only 3% do so in Poland.