Last year, some reddit users had the inspired idea to declare March 31st World Backup Day. The idea took off led by college student Ismail Jadun, who quickly created WorldBackupDay.com. They've partnered with some great sponsors like Backblaze and other backup services to provide some discounts and related offers to redditors, so you have no excuse not to get your backup procedures in good health.
While we are on the subject of backups, here's some general stats on the amount of data we backup here at reddit HQ:
- ~ 270GB of comments
- ~ 70GB of links
- ~ 240GB of link votes
- ~ 300GB of comment votes
- ~ 400GB of "other"
- Our daily backup job takes ~ 5.5 hours to complete. After compression, our daily backup size grows by roughly 200MB each day.
Especially with all the mayhem of April Fool's around the corner, make sure you review your backup plans.
