Securing data files is much, much more important than preserving a Windows and applications installation. Having more than one removable drive provides better protection and if you are serious about protecting your files you should be using more than one and rotating it. They may improve the safety considerably but you have no way of knowing if they will protect against all malware. Malware is not written with the same constraints as regular programs so you cannot rely on other methods providing the same level of security as isolation. Like Arvy says, the only thing approaching absolute protection is to physically remove the backup from the PC and this includes networked PCs and NAS. I use rotation in swappable drive bays for off-site protection myself, but USB-(dis)connected externals would do just as well.īy Seekforever - 26 February 2015 3:28 PM As with anything else, the only kind of immunity that is absolute (or nearly so) is disconnected isolation from any potential sources of infection and other damage. If the attached device/folder is shared, the protection will not be shared. that folder will only be protected on the system that has the protecting software installed. If they do, then place your images in a specific folder and protect that folder instead. If those attached storage volumes don't have to share lots of access with other processes, this method should protect you. I use FolderGuard and any storage device/folder may be protected. In my case, the backup of my images is done into a fully protected folder that any RansomeWare task cannot get access to.
How do ensure the nasties can't get at our Backup Images? One such client got hit by Crypto and all her documents were encrypted.įortunately it didn't encrypt our Macrium backup images, however I've read that some variants go for all files on all attached drives. Most of my clients are using USB external drives. I'd like to find out what we can do to protect our Clients from Cryptolocker encrypting our Image Backups?
By lovelyjubbly - 26 February 2015 6:05 AM
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