Yesterday, before leaving the office I was surfing for info on cryptolocker while thinking if any of the sites could infected. I was paranoid okay?
This morning I get to the office to find my desktop had restarted, and Microsoft said there had been a blue screen of death forcing shutdown. Lord, what did I do?
Nothing starts your day off like a MBAM full scan. My nerves didn't settle until after an hour to find out I was clean. What a coincidence.
Anyway, I think the big take away is to have a detached backup. I don't see how this can be automated.
I have 2 hidden NASs in opposite corners of the building, cloud backup, and 4 external hard drives that I cycle through with one attached for a week making backups every night, with the other three at home. All are protected from water damage from my sprinkler system. But, all four systems are connected to the network and might be corrupted. I would have good data from last weeks backups on the disk at home.
I am going to add another external hard drive at my manager's desk that is normally disconnected and off. Every morning when she verifies that all systems are up and data good, she will make a slow back up of the critical data, and then disconnect/turn off the external hard drive.
Any thoughts? Anyone know of the best back up software to not put a big drag on the network or manager's machine for this kind of manual back up?
Does anyone know if the AC back-up is a full back up with old copies, or more likely the incremental back up that we would find encrypted by cryptolocker?
Indy, do you have a cloud back up that would have a recent unencrypted full back up for all your wild and crazy friends? It would be worth extra.
