We had that happen at a company I worked for. Someone blindly opened an "invoice...

sillysaurus3 · on July 21, 2017

If you think a malware scan is enough to detect malware, I have some malware to sell you. :)

I suppose there's not much else to be done, but scans aren't enough to prevent pivots.

SpikeDad · on July 21, 2017

Exactly. There's too many rootkits and other malware that won't be revealed by most of the common malware and virus scanners.

A business that transacts with protected data should never try to remove malware - these systems need to be wiped and reinstalled.

cjensen · on July 21, 2017

That's why we wiped any system which showed sign of infection. Keep in mind this was ransomware so... probably... it is reasonable to assume the infection will not be subtle.

0xbadcafebee · on July 20, 2017

A local backup can be a lot quicker due to transfer times. From the local backup I'd then do an offsite. You can try to use snapshots with your NAS to just restore the most recent data from remote, too.

SpikeDad · on July 21, 2017

And this highlights the fallacy that Amazon Glacier is a backup service. It's not - it's an archive service. Something that takes a few days to recover is not backed up.

I agree the other products are indeed backups as they provide immediate recovery.

cjensen · on July 21, 2017

Before we instituted the Glacier backup, we discussed whether or not a few days or weeks time would be "good enough" for our needs. We decided it was.

So I totally agree that before picking a backup system, one needs to evaluate what the recovery is going to be like, and whether it will be good enough. For example, when recovering from the cloud, how long will it take to transfer all the data through your Internet connection? BackBlaze's overnight restore via FedEx could be a critical feature in your recovery speed.