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The Declaration of National BackUp Day of Your Data
Before the World, April 2, 2008

When in the Course of computing events, it becomes necessary for one people to archive the Data which have connected them with their respective applications, and to assume among them the powers of the earth, the separate and equally important backup-devices to which the Laws of Technology and of Technology's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of tech-kind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the importance and necessity of archiving.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all data shall be archived, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Retrievability and the Pursuit of 2.0-ness. That to secure these rights, BACKUP Programs are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Technologists, --That whenever any Form of Data becomes corrupted of these ends, it is the Right of the People to recover it from and Archive, or to institute new Data, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing the data in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Data long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer by loss of such Data, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by Archiving the Data to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of losses and recoveries, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to Archive such Data, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Computer Users; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Non-Archiving. The history of the present Computer User is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations to Data, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over said Data. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused Archive His Data, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Data to be Archived elsewhere, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to allow Applications the accommodation of Archiving the large amounts of Data, unless those people would relinquish the right to their Data, a right inestimable to them and formidable to Hackers only.

He has called together and saved Data in places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Desktops, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his Non-Archiving practices.

He has dissolved Data repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the Data to be Archived.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause other Data to be Archived; whereby the Users, incapable of Archiving, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; Data Un-Archived remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to perpetuate the growth of the Data; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Archiving; refusing to assist others to encourage their Archiving commence, and raising the conditions of new Data-Loss-Risks.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A User whose character is thus marked by every act which may define an UnInformed User, is unfit to be the Owner of Important Data.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our User brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their actions to extend an unrecoverable action over their data. We have reminded them of the circumstances of Data Loss. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must,therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of the Users, Enemies at Times of Data Loss, in Succesful Recoveries Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of Data Across the Globe, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good Users of Computing Technology, solemnly publish and declare, That Data are, and of Right ought to be Archived and Stored Independently; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to machine in use, and that all physical connection between them and the Computer in use, is and ought to be totally disconnected; and that as Archived and Stored Independently Data, they have full Power to perform integrity checks, conclude Peace upon retrieval, assist to contract Alliances, and assist in establishing Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Data may of right allow the user to do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Data, we mutually pledge to each other our Data.

The signers of the Declaration represented Data as follows:
Texas, USA
Jose Guia
joseguia@nationalbackupday.com

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