

Spoiler: We do that poll again every year in June for Backup Awareness Month, so come visit us again then and we’ll review the trends. This year, we wanted to share some fun facts we pulled about our Backblaze Personal Backup service, and throw in a few things we’ve learned from our yearly backup poll as well. Each year on this day, we encourage folks to take the pledge to backup their data. If you don’t know, now you know! Some years ago, we and other denizens of the internet got together because we felt that the joy of protecting your data was worthy of celebration. Just say, "Hey, Siri," to your HomePod mini and ask for these podcasts, and our latest HomeKit Insider episode too.If you want an ad-free main AppleInsider Podcast experience, you can support the AppleInsider podcast by subscribing for $5 per month through Apple's Podcasts app, or via Patreon if you prefer any other podcast player.Today, March 31, is World Backup Day. Keep up with everything Apple in the weekly AppleInsider Podcast - and get a fast news update from AppleInsider Daily. Users can update the application from the app itself, or download the new version directly from the Backblaze website. The company says it will host a webinar about the update on July 29. Version 8 of the Backblaze Mac app is now available as of Wednesday. Rather than making a copy of the data before uploading it as it has in previous versions, the client reads the file, encrypts it in RAM, and uploads it directly. The reduction in client load is due to a change in how Backblaze uploads data. However, the Backblaze app will intelligently reduce the number of threads in use if the user selection causes too much system load.

Users can control how much computing power will be allocated to a backup.
