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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..
« on: June 27, 2015, 08:40 AM »While there are lots of things you can do to protect yourself from being attacked, one thing all of us who regularly make backups should do is keep external backup drives DISCONNECTED except when being used to update our backups.-mouser (June 26, 2015, 06:48 PM)
I like to keep more than one set of backups (so at any time there is at least one set offline) -- though one set is older than the other.
Perhaps it would also be good to verify that the just-made backups are sound -- and possibly on a different machine (but for many set-ups, may be that's not so practical). Non-restorable backups don't seem so useful...
After backing up, I disconnect the source drive (so it's now a backup) and start using the drive that's just been backed up to.