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18. March 2010 18:18
New research has revealed the UK has the worst record for backing up data in the whole of Europe.
Acronis surveyed 600 companies across Britain, Germany and France and found 38% of UK SMEs never back up at all. This compares to just 6% in France and 9% in Germany.
Other countries also take back up more seriously. 90% of French and German countries carry out automatic back up at least once a week, compared to just under 60% in the UK.
Despite these poor results, the survey also showed that UK businesses are the most confident about making a recovery after hardware crashes.
"With little room for downtime in today's business environment, it's surprising that many companies still don't carry out regular backups," said Acronis' David Blackman. “The UK’s attitude to data backup does not make much sense and it suggests that a lot of work needs to be done to educate them on this."
It's not known why UK firms seem to disregard back up compared to other companies. Some experts think it could be to do with the economy, while others think they regard their documents as less important than their European counterparts.
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