>Why did they offer to pay $400K to recover ~100 PCs if they had backups?
"Backup is lets says weekly and someone high up the chain really wants the power point he put together on Tuesday." is probably what happened in my experience.
"Backup is lets says weekly and someone high up the chain really wants the power point he put together on Tuesday." is probably what happened in my experience.
But if you know how to run a script (and hopefully anyone administering a 100 computer network does), at least on Linux / Mac, you could use bup or borg or a few others to have effective immutable hourly backups that take almost no space - we do that where I work. I’m sure there’s something similar for Windows.
TimeMachine in macs has a similar feature set notably lacking proportional space (insert 1 byte anywhere in a 5GB file and the snapshot takes an additional 5GB)
It's like saying "why would we put this guy is jail? He's committed a crime but it's done now". Yeah, sure. Except without a deterrent he'll do it again tomorrow. This is the same except it gets rid if the motive instead.