{"id":1037296,"date":"2022-03-28T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/28\/did-you-know-1-in-4-south-africans-dont-back-up-their-phones-here-are-tips-on-how-to-back-up-data-on-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:33:08","slug":"did-you-know-1-in-4-south-africans-dont-back-up-their-phones-here-are-tips-on-how-to-back-up-data-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/28\/did-you-know-1-in-4-south-africans-dont-back-up-their-phones-here-are-tips-on-how-to-back-up-data-on-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know 1 in 4 South Africans don&#039;t back up their phones? Here are tips on how to back up data on your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/9cf0537b-c2c1-5711-a263-ddbcec9f77a2&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x101&#038;resize=1920x1081.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>One in four South Africans are not backing up data their phones.<\/p>\n<p>With World Backup Day on 31 March, Dialdirect Insurance says backing up data should be non-negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Dialdirect shows that 25% of respondents in a survey don\u2019t back up their phones, with 9% citing no specific reason and 16% saying they can\u2019t, due to data or storage limitations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is that while insurance can replace a lost, damaged or stolen phone, it can\u2019t replace the precious data that\u2019s on it. Rebuilding contacts and data could already be a nearly unsurmountable task, but replacing memories captured on photos and videos is virtually impossible, making a solid back-up strategy an absolute must,\u201d said Anneli Retief, the head of Dialdirect.<\/p>\n<p>10 tips for doing backups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know how to back up:<\/li>\n<li>Know what to back up: <\/li>\n<li>Calculate your storage requirements:<\/li>\n<li>The 3-2-1 rule: <\/li>\n<li>Use backup time to declutter:<\/li>\n<li>Label your backups clearly:<\/li>\n<li>Backup care:<\/li>\n<li>Protect your info:<\/li>\n<li>Do it now:<\/li>\n<li>Set reminders:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-96fb5fc543eefb2e72bf04db0ff4cc1d\">IOL Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in four South Africans are not backing up data their phones. With World Backup Day on 31 March, Dialdirect Insurance says backing up data should be non-negotiable. A report by Dialdirect shows that 25% of respondents in a survey don\u2019t back up their phones, with 9% citing no specific reason and 16% saying they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}