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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by driverdan on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:34AM (#6571931)
So you had 2TB of crucial business files and only had a single backup point? No remote / online backup? Scary.
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by MiguelHudnandez on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:28PM (#6572227)
I mentioned cold backups -- those just would've been a little older.

The pull-only archive w/ VSS versions really is massively convenient. It is the first line of defense against the scenario that comes up almost all of the time: "Help, I messed up this important file!"

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