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"Storage providers have not yet put together what I would consider an auditable data protection capability where you can restore a full folder, disk volume, or
by rsync 7y ago
"Storage providers have not yet put together what I would consider an auditable data protection capability where you can restore a full folder, disk volume, or complete system to a point-in-time snapshot of the data with specific retention periods"
I hope it will be useful and interesting to point out that rsync.net, built on the ZFS filesystem, allows customers to create arbitrary snapshot schedules that are live and browseable.
Thousands of our customers do exactly what you just described when they set up day/week/month/quarter/year snapshots and then browse right in with any old SFTP client[1] and retrieve arbitrary files and directories (or VM images, whatever) as they existed on those dates.
These ZFS snapshots are immutable (read only) and immune to attacks like ransomware or a rogue employee.
[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/sftp.html https://www.rsync.net/products/sftp.html
- bretpiatt 7y agoFor servers (or Linux workstations) this is a great strategy. For Windows 10 / macOS endpoints you get the filesystem provided by the OS. This also doesn't address data stored on cloud storage, full endpoint unstructured user data backup is a messy one. While large companies use policy management to force data off of laptops or non-protected cloud systems almost every employee I interact with at normal small business has critical files on their PC.