World Backup Day: NITDA Advises on Data Backup Practice
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has advised Nigerians to adopt practices that will ensure alternative storage, safety and security of important digital contents.
The Agency gave the advise in a statement by its head of corporate affairs, Mrs. Hadiza Umar, while joining the public in commemoration of the world data backup day.
It noted that this year’s event is timely because reminders on data protection are needed more than ever due to the sudden global shift to work-from-home occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“With Nigeria’s drive for a vibrant Digital Economy, which intends to encourage both Public and Private institutions to promote their services online, there is potential to generate a massive amount of data. Therefore, making a backup copy of your valuable data can make all the difference when data loss or a compromise occurs. NITDA encourages the public to safely store backup copies of all valuable data from servers, personal electronic devices such as computers, smartphones, and tablets regularly.” The statement said.
It therefore advised that backup can be achieved through individual daily back to an external storage device like Flash Drive, Memory Card, HardDisk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD), or Cloud Storage and the 3/2/1 backup rule with three copies of data, two on different media types, and one remote copy on cloud storage.
Data backup is the process of keeping a clean second copy of any important digital content to guarantee availability; even when a computer crashes, cell phones or tablets get lost, data becomes corrupted, or gets destroyed by a virus.
World Backup Day (31st March each year) originally began as World Backup Month. The event was initiated by a hard drive company – Maxtor, which was later acquired by Seagate Technology.
World Back-up Day aims to raise awareness concerning the role of data in our lives and consequently the importance of undertaking regular data backup.
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