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I get some peace of mind (in both professional and business settings) from having backup include a physically separable and 100% offline component. I like knowi

I get some peace of mind (in both professional and business settings) from having backup include a physically separable and 100% offline component. I like knowing an attacker would need to resort to kinetic means to completely destroy all copies of the data. The physically separable component often lags behind the rest of the copies. It may only be independently verified on an air-gapped machine periodically. It's not the best copy, for sure. I still take comfort in knowing attackers generally won't launch a kinetic attack.

dboreham 2y ago
Mr Metorite can launch such an attack but as long as you have two physically gapped backups at a distance greater than the likely blast radius you'll be fine.
onethumb 2y ago
That's fair. Nothing like piece of mind. :) Conceptually, though, I think my separation of "sync vs backup" and separating of discrete providers (both software and supplier) accomplishes this same goal. Conceptually, it's not very different, or possibly just a level up, from "online media vs archive media". At least, it seems that way to me.