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It's not. You can backup ransomwared files all the same.

• syshum 5y ago
  Which is why you have immutable backups, and you do not simply over write everything. this is not a new concept, or a new thing. To believe ransomeware protection is not a function of proper backups is just ignorant. Anyone working in Enterprise IT, managing backups for any company, that is the #1 thing we talk about, that is the number 1 thing we are focused on in our backup strategy. We spend significant resources on it.
  • gsich 5y ago
    That doesn't matter. If you create a new backup, then your ransomwared files will be in that backup. Immutable just means that after the creation, the backup can't be modified anymore. So, how do you detect if you have ransomwared data? My take is that a backup can't help with that. It can help with restoring obviously.
• pnutjam 5y ago
  My backup drive would fill up and alert me since it's btrfs formatted and all the encrypted data would be new data not in an existing snapshot.