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Worse than a flood, scarier than a fire: how to prepare your backups for a ransomware virus visit
For decades, backups have primarily protected us from physical equipment failure and accidental data corruption. A good backup system should survive a fire, a flood, and then quickly enable the business to continue normal operations. But another problem has emerged, which is much more likely than a flood and from which fireproof barriers and physical separation of sites in different cities do not save.