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Remember when a simple virus scan was enough?
Last month, my home server got hit with a crypto locker that hid in a fake invoice email. I thought restoring from my backup drive would take an hour, tops. It took me three full days to realize the ransomware had been dormant for a week and encrypted the backup too. I had to rebuild everything from an offline backup I made a month prior, which meant losing a lot of recent photos. It was a brutal reminder that backups need to be air-gapped and checked often. Anyone else have a backup plan they thought was solid that totally failed?
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emery_lopez14d ago
Honestly, the whole air-gapped backup talk seems like overkill for a home server. If your main backup got hit, that's a failure to check it regularly, not proof you need some crazy offline system. Most people just need a cloud backup with version history, something that runs on its own without you having to swap drives. Making it too complex means you'll probably mess it up or just stop doing it.
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joseph_torres17d ago
Honestly, calling for air-gapped backups feels like overkill for most home setups. That three day recovery sounds more like a problem with not testing your restore process often enough, not the backup method itself. A good cloud backup service with versioning would have caught that dormant ransomware before it hit your local drive. Sometimes the simplest plan is just paying for a set-it-and-forget-it online backup instead of building a complex offline system you have to manage.
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