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Re:80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again by arendtio on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:54PM (#27572893)
Please define snapshot.

I suspect you mean filesystem snapshots and as long as the snapshot lives on the same physical media you are correct. But when you take the snapshot and transfer it to a physically separate location where it cannot be altered it sounds like a backup to me.

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Re:80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again by failwhaleshark on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:51PM (#27576143)
Physically-separate location or not snapshots that can be added, updated, culled, or deleted by local systems aren't backups, they're replication. Replication replicates problems.

Vaulted offsite on at-rest storage media is the only valid way to store backups. Every other "convenient" "backup" service or snapshot replication process is a liability businesses must avoid. Lose all your data, 50%+ you're out of business, and The End.

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