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Discussion on: A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack

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Raunak Ramakrishnan • Edited

Great article. Wanted to add that backing up is just one part of the story. Periodic restores must be tried out to ensure that everything works when restored.

Also, we should keep separate weekly and monthly snapshots in case we are slow to detect the ransomware as the cron can overwrite the earlier good backup with the backup tainted by ransomware.

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Victoria Drake

Great points! Thank you!

I got caught up in my cron line and neglected to round out the practice. 😅