01 Jun 2009

Disaster recovery planning 'poor for Brits'

A recent survey has revealed that only one-third of Britons back up their files on a regular basis, something which could prompt serious problems for efficient disaster recovery.

A study by Symantec has shown that nearly 40 per cent of all PC owners in the UK have admitted to losing data in the past. However, two-thirds do not backup their drives or critical files.

This lack of forethought could place a serious burden on anyone unfortunate enough to suffer a data loss incident, with the research also showing that the average incident costs £1,258 to recover lost content.

Con Mallon, director of product marketing at Norton, said: "This is why I am concerned at people's complacency: only 22 per cent of people surveyed backup all of their files."

Meanwhile, Dan Blacharski recently wrote in his blog for IT World that companies which do not embrace disaster recovery planning run the risk of being unable to weather a crisis.