Syringa Networks got hit with ransomeware.  Their CEO gave a talk about it.  A 
physical air gapped backup would seem the only way to truly protect against 
that type of things.

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> On Dec 31, 2020, at 2:16 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) 
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> I just spun up a urBackup server and rolled it myself - but that's because I 
> couldn't find an online service that would actually behave in a way I wanted 
> for a decent amount of money.   It also helps that I'm backing up packetflux 
> machines and in-cloud machines, none of which are in the WISP's datacenter, 
> so I can end up with my own off-site backup that way.
> 
> It was rather straightforward to do, ended up using the recommended linux 
> filesystem which gains the ability to store only the changes between each 
> backup while ending up with effectively a full disk image of each windows box 
> which can be easily restored.   The Linux and similar boxes don't do an image 
> backup, but they do have versioned backups so I can go back to the filesystem 
> just like it looked on any day that a backup was completed.
> 
> It also doesn't need a lot of CPU.   I ended up repurposing a server which I 
> added a pair of 16TB disks to. 
> 
> If you have a way to do the off-site backup yourself, this isn't a bad 
> option.   
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:30 PM Jay Weekley <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> What is the current opinion on online data backups?  Which service is best?
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