imaudigger, post: 417480, member: 7286 wrote: Having a tape back up of all your data files, is pretty good insurance. They can't get into that info. Worse case you have to wipe a computer and re-install programs then restore all the data.
Tape backup for 10TB of data sounds terrible! Can you even buy tape backups any more?
FL/GA PLS., post: 417481, member: 379 wrote: [USER=12051]@tfdoubleyou[/USER]
How could or would these attacks occur if running Intranet LAN but connected to the Internet for email?
Tia
Click on an infected email attachment. It doesn't have to be an exe or zip file anymore. I can be a pdf, jpg, or just about anything.
thebionicman, post: 417505, member: 8136 wrote: We all just write the passwords on sticky notes and place them along the edge of a monitor. Really important stuff is under the keyboard..
This is my wife's approach. It drives me nuts, but all efforts to get her to use a password manager have failed to bear fruit.
The password manager I've been using for years is PasswordSafe. It's open source and free.
andrewm, post: 417564, member: 10888 wrote: Tape backup for 10TB of data sounds terrible! Can you even buy tape backups any more?
That does sound painful. While we do have onsite mirrored backup and offsite near real-time backup, we also have a couple of Synology Diskstations that we rotate through on a weekly basis. This works as an easy inexpensive "save yo a$$" solution for our data (under 14TB). One of these is always off site and NOT connected to anything. If we had to go to one of these we'd lose up to (but no more than) a week's worth of work - that may not sound very good right now but if someone had locked up all of our connected data, that would sound awesome!
While redundant and real-time (or near real-time) offsite backups sound great (and are necessary) - they are connected to your network which is connected to the internet which is connected to people who want something for nothing. Off-site and disconnected data improves the quality of your sleep.
Jim Frame, post: 417570, member: 10 wrote: This is my wife's approach. It drives me nuts, but all efforts to get her to use a password manager have failed to bear fruit.
My SWMBO writes them down on a midget steno pad and then starts yellin' at me when she can't find it. 😉
14 TB is an astounding amount of data for job files. They do make a tape back-up that holds 15TB per cartridge. It would probably take 6-7 hours to perform a backup like that. Not unreasonable if it were backing up data at night. It's in-expensive compared to losing critical information.
http://www.quantum.com/products/tapedrives/ltoultrium/lto-7/index.aspx
Those tape drives are pricey ($2k and up). I think you'd do better buying disks, backing up in pairs, and replacing the drives periodically.
My experiences with tape backup were uniformly disappointing. The first go-round was with a low-end product, a Colorado Backup drive that used QIC tapes. I no longer recall whether the drive quit, the tapes failed or the software didn't survive an OS upgrade, but after a couple of years I ditched that system in favor of an Ecrix (later Exabyte) VXA drive. That one was considerably more expensive, both drive and media, though still not a high-end product. The drive lasted a few years and then died. At that point I was done with tape as a storage medium. Now it's all disk for me locally, plus the cloud.
Jim Frame, post: 417731, member: 10 wrote: Those tape drives are pricey ($2k and up). I think you'd do better buying disks, backing up in pairs, and replacing the drives periodically.
My experiences with tape backup were uniformly disappointing. The first go-round was with a low-end product, a Colorado Backup drive that used QIC tapes. I no longer recall whether the drive quit, the tapes failed or the software didn't survive an OS upgrade, but after a couple of years I ditched that system in favor of an Ecrix (later Exabyte) VXA drive. That one was considerably more expensive, both drive and media, though still not a high-end product. The drive lasted a few years and then died. At that point I was done with tape as a storage medium. Now it's all disk for me locally, plus the cloud.
I had BAD experience with tape drives as well. I have data from all of the jobs I have done EXCEPT for a couple that I put on tape and could not get back. I think they were Colorado drives backup. Never had any good experiences with tapes, but that was more than 20 years ago, so I assume they are much more reliable now. With the cost of external hard drives so low, it is easy to just buy a HD and backup everything that matters every so often.
But, I will say that terrestrial laser scanning changes things a bit. Massive amounts of data are created even on "small" scan jobs.
People need to be realistic, not everything on a PC is so important. The only things I consider irreplaceable reside in two directories: my documents and projects. Everything else on the computer can be re-installed. I run an automated backup every night to an external drive, but the two directories I mentioned above are also backed up to a cloud service continuously.
so you're saying this isn't a good password??
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