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Many people’s backup routines aren’t good enough. Some of these guys encrypt over a period of time which is long enough to exceed the backup rotation. Their c
by wrycoder 5y ago
Many people’s backup routines aren’t good enough.
Some of these guys encrypt over a period of time which is long enough to exceed the backup rotation. Their code decrypts on request, until the trigger day, when it posts the banners and deletes itself.
- WalterBright 5y agoThat's why you have a combination of rotating backups, say 7, one a day, and non-rotating permanent backups, say once a week. Also, one should use "append only" backups (such as tape), or a disk drive designed to be append only with hardware write enables.
- wrycoder 5y agoWith a de-duplicating backup system like Borg, you can keep more backups in the same space. borgbase.com provides append-only and 2FA, which keeps your backups secure.
- dheera 5y agoMaybe corporations should make it standard practice to have cold storage backups that are physically disconnected from the network (by humans) in a rotated fashion. Backup A is physically disconnected on B days and backup B is physically disconnected on A days.
- sreitshamer 5y agoOr stored an a cloud storage provider that supports S3-style object lock.