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Backups are active measure, that you have to do on purpose. Changelog fs just works

• mnw21cam 8y ago
  They're pretty automatic on any system I get my grubby hands on. The added advantage is that backups done properly will protect you against the machine going up in smoke, where CoW won't.
  • gcb0 8y ago
    well, if you automate backups too much, the Ransonware would eventually have reached your backup storage and screwed things there too...
    • namibj 8y ago
      That's why proper backups are done in a pull-configuration and not the easy way of push. I.e., the backup system has access to the production system, and grabs the data itself. The production system can at worst serve bad data to the backup system, against which the protections are not that hard. Basically just a protocol client that can handle malicious servers, like a HTTP(S) server/client or such.