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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by biot on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:45AM (#11875269)
write != overwrite
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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by drjesusphd on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:10AM (#11876084)
So changes to files don't get backed up?
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Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers by dagw on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:19AM (#11876123)
Obviously you back up changes, but not to the same place as the old file. Backups should be append only. So that if you at some point you realize you've started to back up encrypted data you can just roll back to the point where the data wasn't encrypted.
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