Do people perceive this to be more cost effective than backing up data? What is the total cost in terms of down-time, failing audits, disclosing to customers a

Do people perceive this to be more cost effective than backing up data? What is the total cost in terms of down-time, failing audits, disclosing to customers and employees that control of their data has been lost? Would that loss be greater than a backup solution? Has it become taboo in 2020 to do backups that can't be tainted by attackers or dodgy automation? It was not a problem 20 years ago. What changed? If it's cost, even a low end gluster cluster [0] or Ceph with an archive read-only share that has rsnapshot [1] diffs for 5 days would mitigate this, assuming you know within 2 or 3 days to sound the alarm. Rsnapshot would run on the server. People would just see multiple folders with the last 5 days of changes. The snapshots would not be writable by employees or malware. To further reduce cost, perhaps de-duplicate data with ZFS or VDO [2]. Everything mentioned here is open source and has multiple enterprise supported options that your engineering and IT staff are likely already aware of. If not, there are plenty of documents on integrating gluster into active directory. [0] - https://www.gluster.org/community/ https://www.gluster.org/community/ [1] - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot [2] - https://blog.delouw.ch/2018/12/17/using-data-deduplication-and-compression-with-vdo-on-rhel-7-and-8/ https://blog.delouw.ch/2018/12/17/using-data-deduplication-a...