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.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 31, 2020, at 2:16 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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? >> -- >> Jay Weekley >> Cyber Broadband >> <TECH_Blue very small.jpg> >> >> Virus-free. www.avg.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > - Forrest > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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