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If only all these mega corporations that get hit by crypto lockers had heard the magic bullet of ZFS! /s
by tinus_hn 5y ago
If only all these mega corporations that get hit by crypto lockers had heard the magic bullet of ZFS! /s
- dragontamer 5y agoIf any corporation has a proper and secure backup, then crypto-lockers are simply a null-and-void issue. You get cryptolockered, then just restore from backup and you're fine. For online backups: ZFS snapshots ought to handle the common cryptolocker case (where cryptolocker infects the client machine and encrypts all the data). However, if the virus stops there, the ZFS snapshot (which is controlled on the NAS) can restore your data from the last snapshot no problem. I'm sure that criminal gangs are willing to go one step further and maybe attack the NAS and delete the ZFS snapshots, but its still a 2nd step that must occur before you have a significant failure. --------------------- Its not a magic bullet, but its a significant defense mechanism that seems to handle the current, common case.
- wyager 5y agoThis but unironically. Sometimes I find a technology or strategy where I think “people are insane for not using this”. ZFS is definitely one of those. It reduces so many IT costs by orders of magnitude. (Storage requirements for denormalized data, backup time and bandwidth, frequency of backups, procedural cost of restoring from backups, cost of dealing with disk failure, data corruption costs, etc.)