The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has advised Nigerians to prioritize data backup to avoid loss of information in commemoration of World Backup Day.
The Head of Corporate Affairs and External Relations of the agency, Mrs Hadiza Umar, gave this advice on Sunday in an advisory to celebrate the day.
Umar said backup of information is the practice of copying information from a primary to a secondary location, to protect it in case of a disaster, accident, or malicious action.
“The act of data backup is when you create a copy of your important information, store it in a secure and separate location, and recognize the backup as a restoration method.
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“Your data is more valuable than your device. Remember a backup strategy isn’t something to focus on just one day of the year.
“It should be part of your cyber hygiene and by backing up your data, you are already one step ahead of any cyber threat that might cause data loss,” she said.
According to Umar, the rules of backup include keeping at least three copies of your data, maintaining the copies on two different storage media, and storing one copy offsite or in the cloud.
World Backup Day is celebrated annually on March 31 by the backup and tech industry worldwide.
The day highlights the importance of protecting information, and keeping systems and computers secure.
In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is “back up“, whereas the noun and adjective form is “backup“.
Backups can be used to recover information after its loss from data deletion or corruption or to recover information from an earlier time.
Backups provide a simple form of disaster recovery; however, not all backup systems can reconstitute a computer system or other complex configuration such as a computer cluster, active directory server, or database server.
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