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“Google drive has never caused me a problem” - The person who doesnt know about the 2.5 billion user breach “We are very careful with our files, we don’t need backups“ - Says the one who is constantly shuffling files into folders. “I will just use a USB drive” - Leaves company with the personal USB drive with them. “Dropbox are a massive company, they won’t get hacked” - 68 million passwords leaked in 2016 “All our data is backed up through RAID” - RAID is NOT backup. RAID is NOT backup. RAID is NOT backup. “We have a NAS on-site that does all our backups” - Never logged into said NAS since it was setup, lost password and not monitored. “I don’t trust any cloud service, if it’s not saved on my Desktop then i’m not working on it” - Says bob who is still holding onto his Windows XP install CD and keys … I can go on forever, but the reality is some organisations still don’t value their data, and this needs to change. There has to be a balance between understanding the risks of using a cloud service and adopting safety measures. === synaas.uk === SynaaS is an Education focussed private cloud backup solution #Backup #Data #edtech #education #Microsoft365 #googleWorkspace
I was in a user group with Douglas Setser many years ago after an outage and listened to someone say that backups and redundancy aren't that important. Nothing else after that mattered because the person speaking was obviously an idiot.
For many, the threat is non-existent till they are the victim. Nobody is worried about a landmine till they step on one.
ah, takes me back. Years ago i went on two weeks holiday. Came back to find a major issue with an SME customer. One of our guys had pulled a drive on the Raid set whilst one had failed. Doh. Its ok, we have backups. Backups failed 1.5 weeks previously. No fun
Sadly, until it has happened to them, it will not be a business reality. And I can say, as the second human assistant for two very pampered cats, it really is like trying to herd cats with some end users. For these end users, we politely move on and ask them to contact us when they have a problem. Life really is too short to try and help those who do not believe they need help.
I had a 5 disk NAS in RAID 5, 1 disk failed, replaced it. In the process of rebuilding that drive into the array, the other 4 disk were at 100% utilisation - another one failed :| - Whole array lost. Luckily the most important data was backed up to a large USB drive and OneDrive. the 3-2-1 backup methodology might be out of date now, but it's what I follow. 3 copies of your data. 2 different mediums. 1 off-site.
Most of these are common sense and easy to agree with except the cloud. I cannot bring myself to trust the cloud over myself.
Hah, I guess people never went through an actual DR situation. You don't just need backups, you need offsite backups and grandfather, father, son, backups. Edit: This is of course in addition to having RPO and RTO objectives and strategies for hitting those objectives. Edit 2: Paranoia is not illogical if you can be completely obliterated by a data loss.
Backups are not a “nice to have” even if your data is in the cloud. Those backups must be monitored on a daily or even hourly basis. One of the first signs of a hardware issue or cyber attack is failing backups!
OMG - that is hilarious!! It is so wrong ... Let me explain. By the time an encryption attack starts (most often over a three day weekend) - the attacker has been in the network for 6 months to a year. They will add exclusion in the security software (for their software), gather passwords, steal data, install more back doors. The first strike is to take out the backups. All online backups are destroyed or encrypted. Online means onsite and cloud storage. They have all the keys, and the passwords. The ONLY WAY to protect the data is to have automated backups that CAN NOT be accessed on the network or automatically. The only thing that does that is an automated (LTO) tape drive. It takes a full backup and then spits the tape out ("air gapped")- a tape holds terabytes of data, for 50 years, for a few dollars. You can access data and VM's while they are reloading from tape (I.e., I've had VMs back online in minutes, the users didn't even know the server went offline). The tape drive can also act as a very high volume file share -so in multidrive units they are a very economical way to make massive amounts of archive data available continuously without paying for disk or (LOL) cloud storage.