Personal Data Recovery Survey 2020: Data Loss Is Inevitable but Not Necessarily Permanent

How many users do you think have lost their personal digital data, such as documents, photos, or videos? According to a recent Data Recovery Survey, the answer is 63%.

Disturbing Lack of Regular Backups

The grim fact that data loss is inevitable may be surprising to some, but the reality is that experts have been preaching the importance of regular data backups — and warning about the potentially disastrous consequences of their absence — for what seems like ages now. Alas, even their first personal experience with data loss wasn’t enough to convince many respondents (24%) to begin backing up their data.

The survey revealed that out of those who do make backups of their data (70%), most don’t back up on a daily basis. What’s more, many back up only once a year (16%), leaving plenty of time for data loss to occur for a number of different reasons, including hardware failure (20%), system malfunction (20%), and accidental file deletion (19%).