Backup habits

Europeans differ in their approach to PC backup, a new survey has found. The Germans do it efficiently, the French with enthusiasm, while the British sometimes have trouble taking it seriously at all.

According to backup company Acronis, which commissioned a survey of 600 IT staff across Europe, more than 90% of professionals carry out backup automatically or manually on workstations at least once a week in France and Germany, about what one would expect. In the UK, apparently, barely 60% are as fastidious, and nearly 40% claim not to back up at all.

Oddly, this glum number doesn't stop the same Brits from being the most confident that they could recover should disaster strike, with 86% being 'confident' or 'very confident', some way ahead of the Germans and French.

Source: PC Advisor.