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badamsiosllc wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2024 3:40 am So what's a backup good for, if not to restore the system to the day prior to any attack.

It's good for restoring a system...when the backup has been tested, and known to be good.

If it's been encrypted by ransomware (including OneDrive, if an infected system syncs with it), it won't be a matter of paying a ransom.

Good luck.

Great. I just spent over 2 hours typing a reply, and when I hit submit, I had to login again. All it lost, captain. We can rebuild it. Better than before, faster than before. But captain! I don’t remember what I said. Sh**!

Wonder what I’ll say this time.

So, how does one test a backup daily, to include incremental’s? VirtualBox? I guess that would give my bored butt something to do every day. All day:) Hmmm. That would get boring too. And fry more brain cells, than would get challenged.

I do keep my personal files – Docs, photos...etc. Zipped onto an external 1 TB drive, once a month. In fact, I do keep 3 months of those.

I definitely remember the crap I dealt with as a CIO of an international holding Co. We kept backups for a year, at 2 different hotels and a hospital. Brick level for the exchange server… Every location. Fail-over for the Exchange server and SQL at every location…

I remember the “I love you” virus and the Nimda outbreak. We had serious policies that users singed when hired, that included things like, “If you allow friends/family to send email to your work address, it’ll be your last millisecond of employment.” Same with personal email. Better not catch you! Obviously THAT did no good.

DO NOT open an email, if you’re not expecting it. Dual factor authentication… Don’t remember who or what, but we all had a little fob, where series of numbers that changed every so-often. Drives were encrypted, forced them to change passwords, quarterly… Hell, I don’t even remember what all we did.

What else did we do… Oh, I had someone setup a SNORT (IDS) system. I called it snort on acid. Had Earnst and Young test our sites for cyber vulnerabilities. Always someone.

Joined Infraguard in the early 90’s. That’s how I learned about the DEC SEAL firewall. To my knowledge, that was the first firewall. Switched to the Cisco PIX a few years later. Much more user friendly!

The only things I really care about are recipes, family photos and videos, I create. Got me a bad-a$$ gaming machine for the Nvidia GEForce RTX for video editing. Built that thing myself, just a couple years ago. What are those drives called, NVME? Got that, 128 GB RAM. I impressed me when I found I I could still do that.

Anyway, before I test backups, every day, I’ll take these flash-drives I have with Windows 11, (And 10 for the wife’s laptop and our laptop with recipes in the kitchen) and buy a couple of those (illegal) licenses from Groupon. Firefox is synced. And yes, I have a doc with all our passwords in it. Stored on the Windows 11 the flash-drive, stored in the fireproof safe, bolted into the cement floor in my garage.

No, not just for the flash-drives. Our trust, will, jewelry...

Couple more years, I’ll probably have to call one of my kids to get the pass-code.

Well, thanks for giving me something to do, but I think when I type, my fingers get shorter.

badamsiosllc wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2024 10:17 pm Great. I just spent over 2 hours typing a reply, and when I hit submit, I had to login again. All it lost, captain. We can rebuild it. Better than before, faster than before. But captain! I don’t remember what I said. Sh**!

I always check it
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UGZAi3NZvGWs86HW8

Every time you log in?! I had no idea one had to do that. I thought "Remember me," was just to remember my login id and password, not to keep me logged in.

Thanks!

Hey, just wanted to say, thanks, y'all!

I remembered - when I saw the option while poking around, that you can create the schedule to keep X number of backups.

'Cuz that scripting is WAY over my head.

I've been using the IFWRotate script for years. It is simple to use, even for non-scripters.

Have a look at: "Sample Backup Batch Script 2 – Rotate based on count" in the Scripts section.
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows/

It's just a matter of editing a few lines, and that's it.

PS: Maybe TeraByte Unlimited should remove the word "Sample" from the Scripts.

Nope. Too far over my head. I think, in my original post, I mentioned I'm an old man in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

I can't follow things as well as I used to. Therefore, I asked that the answer be kept simple. You know, something along the lines of say, "Do this". Not read this, and go figure it out yourself.