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Offsite backup is not enough. I have done consulting on many projects and on every one of them, someone getting access to certain servers would be able to sabot
by ht85 6y ago
Offsite backup is not enough. I have done consulting on many projects and on every one of them, someone getting access to certain servers would be able to sabotage backups as well.
If your data is important, you should replicate your backups to an append-only storage with a long retention period.
I've been using S3 in "Compliance" retention mode, which coupled with Glacier is cheap, and more importantly lets me sleep at night.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoYou can also do just fine with an LTO tape drive. The main problem is that people want automated convenience and automated convenience can be hacked before people notice. An LTO backup tape on a shelf might as well be stored in Fort Knox as far as a hacker is concerned.