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Yes, lets. In the meantime, if your data is not in at least two places, it doesn't exist. I'm a fan of three.

• willvarfar 13y ago
  Eh, cryptolocker will get those duplicates too.
  • Bootvis 13y ago
    He meant physical locations. Of course keeping your data on external backups has been a good practice since forever but many lack the discipline.
  • EvanAnderson 13y ago
    Real backup is both offsite and offline. If your backup doesn't have both attributes then it isn't backup.
• ufmace 13y ago
  That's one of the real headaches of Cryptolocker, apparently. If you have automatic backups set up, the encrypted files will most likely be backed up there and overwrite the clean ones. To really be safe, you need either secure versioned backups - default Windows and MacOS backups may not work, since the drive is connected and fully accessible to the computer - or to do backups manually to media not normally connected to the computer, and notice that something has gone wrong sometime between when the infection starts and when you connect the drive. Did I mention yuck?
  • wrongc0ntinent 13y ago
    >do backups manually to media not normally connected to the computer Yup. This is really the only 100% way to have control over your stuff, local, physically separated storage. > notice that something has gone wrong sometime between when the infection starts and when you connect the drive. This assumes a chronological/incremental order for complete backups, which in practice is lazy and not related to the value of your data. Your only enemy should be the hardware. Dealing with the ugliest virus/worm/trojan turns into a mere nuisance when you have that kind of headroom.