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They do if you set them up right.

• bigiain 9y ago
  How? I've got three separate encrypted copies of my homedir spread across two different locations and a fourth snapshot taken once a week on a drive that's physically powered down when not in the middle of a backup - and I've regularly tested restoring from each of them. How does any of that help when malware grabs my .git .aws .gnupg .keypassx, etc directories from my running system - and unknown 3rd parties start downloading (or worse, backdooring) my "private" stuff from github?
• greedo 9y ago
  Explain how please. All a backup can do is restore your system to a previously known state. It can't unring the bell when it comes to your data being possessed by a bad actor...