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This article will cover some of the ways you can protect your backups from becoming encrypted and thus allowing you to restore your systems.
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It is worth noting that ransomware viruses generally target known file types and we have not had a single reported instance, from our 4 million+ user base, of any of our backup file formats being encrypted by these viruses at the time of writing |
Write-once Media Backups
The simplest way to protect your backups is to use backup storage that can only be written to once. These are usually optical media such as CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R. These discs can only be written to once i.e. at the time of backup and so even if a virus has access to the disc if it is still in the disc tray it cannot alter the data on the disc.
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