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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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In article <d44qaj1qpguo4ae3onpfi359hpp3823mj6@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 16:41:48 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
><usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
>>... it'll be "mass
>>ransomware attack and nobody will get their data back without
>>paying a billion to Putin's hacker brigades."
>
>Backups are the key here. Daily backups, and to items unlikely to be
>affected (provided the hackers ignore USB/WiFi drives) or (not daily
>but not too ancient either) USB thumb drives that /are not attached to
>any computer/ and so cannot be reached by the kernal, however hacked.
>
>/Serious/ backups, that's what I am talking about.

Yeah.  Alas, too many backups turn out to have been accessible by
the miscreants, or the backup process turns out to be less useful
for producing actual backups that can be recovered from than you
would hope.

The backup process needs to be verified to produce backups
usable for quickly restoring function, but this is very
rarely tested.

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