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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by cutemonster on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:45AM (#23701229)
Append-only external disk, is there sth like that?

And one flips a hardware switch to start overwriting from the beginning, if disk full

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by giancarlostoro on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:38PM (#23703428)
I think a network based one in theory should be capable of doing so with the right OS / configuration, but not sure about a hardware based one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many

This is the acronym I saw on HN somewhere though, WORM.

Edit: Upon further research its kind of annoying that this isn't more common for NAS / cloud storage solutions. I think some like Dropbox do keep revisions on the other hand.

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by cutemonster on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#23718005)
Syncthing can save revisions, and is open source -- I remember now

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html

Lots of config options

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