Over the last few weeks, Carbonite Australia has been undertaking a quick survey of our trial customers in order to better understand what they think of online backup and how they use backup within their home.
Some of the key results are below:
| How often do you backup your home PC? |
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| Daily |
9.8% |
| Weekly |
18% |
| Monthly |
16.4% |
| Every 2 months |
6.6% |
| Every 3 months |
8.2% |
| Every 6 months |
8.2% |
| Annually |
1.6% |
| Never |
31.1% |
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| How do you currently backup your home PC? |
|
| 1 don’t backup |
27.9% |
| External hard drive network |
26.2% |
| Second internal hard drive |
3.3% |
| DVDs/CD-Roms |
14.8% |
| Online Backup |
3.3% |
| Tape Backup |
1.6% |
| USB Drive/Memory Stick |
21.3% |
| Other |
1.6% |
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Have you ever lost data and how?
|
Yes |
|
No |
| Because of no backup |
50% |
|
50% |
| Because of inadequate backup |
34.1% |
|
65.9% |
| Because the backup restoration failed |
28.6% |
|
71.4% |
| Because your hard drive crashed |
54% |
|
46% |
| Because your PC was destroyed/stolen |
12.2% |
|
87.8% |
| Because your backup was destroyed/stolen |
7.7% |
|
92.3% |
