Carbonite Australia Online Backup » Online Backup Research http://www.carbonite.com.au secure automated online backups Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:03:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Online Backup Research http://www.carbonite.com.au/08/21/online-backup-research/ http://www.carbonite.com.au/08/21/online-backup-research/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:04:21 +0000 arthur http://www.carbonite.com.au/?p=927

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?
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%
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%
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%
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