So, my friend just got ransomware hacked and he didnt want to pay 1000$ to recover is data, so he lost all his data on all his drives... this got me thinking, I need a backup solution asap, because if something like this happened to me i'd be in deep shit... all my work, all my photos, years and years of data, it would be catastrophic for me.
I never bothered with backups because, I have antiviruses and I'm not dumb (opening .exe in emails, download warez, etc), but my friend is the same, he's actually even more careful than me, so if it could happen to him, it sure can happen to me. Right now, I only rarely do small manual backups once in a while on my internal drives (I have a 500gb drive called "backup" and I just copy stuff there like, very rarely)... but that doesnt protect against ransomware as it can lock all your files on all your drives...
I dont really trust cloud backups ( Should I ? ) but even if I did, the issue is that it would take forever to upload everything (I have about 2TB of data, but not 100% of all that is backup worthy), furthermore I dont have unlimited internet data (only have 400gb) so, the backups would need to be "smart" (only upload the new/changed files in specific folders). Also, i'm wondering how cloud backup would be effective against ransomware, if all my files are infected/encripted, they would be uploaded to the cloud and having a backup of encripted/infected files would do no good... I'd need the possibility to go back in time to a date when I know my stuff was clean.
I also wonder about NAS? i'm guessing that wouldnt be effective against ransomware?
What do you guys recommend? Specific products/services/softwares... I really want something simple, I dont want to break my head, something relatively cheap would be good too (under 200$ if possible)...
Thx!
I never bothered with backups because, I have antiviruses and I'm not dumb (opening .exe in emails, download warez, etc), but my friend is the same, he's actually even more careful than me, so if it could happen to him, it sure can happen to me. Right now, I only rarely do small manual backups once in a while on my internal drives (I have a 500gb drive called "backup" and I just copy stuff there like, very rarely)... but that doesnt protect against ransomware as it can lock all your files on all your drives...
I dont really trust cloud backups ( Should I ? ) but even if I did, the issue is that it would take forever to upload everything (I have about 2TB of data, but not 100% of all that is backup worthy), furthermore I dont have unlimited internet data (only have 400gb) so, the backups would need to be "smart" (only upload the new/changed files in specific folders). Also, i'm wondering how cloud backup would be effective against ransomware, if all my files are infected/encripted, they would be uploaded to the cloud and having a backup of encripted/infected files would do no good... I'd need the possibility to go back in time to a date when I know my stuff was clean.
I also wonder about NAS? i'm guessing that wouldnt be effective against ransomware?
What do you guys recommend? Specific products/services/softwares... I really want something simple, I dont want to break my head, something relatively cheap would be good too (under 200$ if possible)...
Thx!