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Re:Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand by JTbane on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:32PM (#34810157)
>Is it that difficult to make off-site backups every hour? Storage is cheap. There are many air gapping options for backups, too.

I'd imagine that often your backups get encrypted as well, early enough that the data loss to the last good backup becomes unacceptable.

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Re:Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand by clnq on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:51PM (#34813915)
Yes, but that is not inevitable. Backups can be air-gapped. And yes, there would still be minimal loss. But not enough to be extorted over.
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