Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by emodendroket on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:36PM
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I think cloud-based businesses are way more likely than homespun solutions to actually be able to stand up a system from backups quickly, so I'm not sure what you mean about the cloud being "our downfall." Specialization is a sign of a maturity, isn't it? A few hundred years ago you could more or less know what there was to know in multiple fields of science, but this is no longer possible.
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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by simonh on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:48AM
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Quite, when you build a system in AWS you are hiring a bunch of hard core nerds to do all this shit for you. That's the deal. You don't need to set up your own restore server to verify your tape backups every night, you just archive your snapshots to Glacier. You can even set up a restore environment in a new VPC for zero capital costs and just spin it up once a quarter to verify the process. It makes all of this stuff an order of magnitude easier and cheaper.