To underscore the importance of backups: We've been aware that our data and backup policies were lacking, and have been discussing ways to improve that. We hav

To underscore the importance of backups: We've been aware that our data and backup policies were lacking, and have been discussing ways to improve that. We have more than 500gb of work and client data that is highly valuable, and thousands of dollars in stock photos to boot. Then one of our systems got hit by cryptodefense (the latest variant of cryptolocker). It encrypted the NAS drives faster than we could notice, and destroyed some 99% of our data. If it had been able to propagate to just 1 other system, which we did a nightly mirror of the NAS to, we'd have lost everything. Since then, we've been trying to set up backups to Amazon Glacier. Don't underestimate the ease with which data loss can affect you. It could be a malicious link in a phishing email, a malicious attachment, bit rot, a natural disaster, or simple hardware failure. The cost of maintaining offsite backups is cheaper than recovering from data loss.