Clever attacks manifest themselves a long time after the "infection" in order to poison backups. And backup media may fail when they are most needed. That's an effect of Murphy's law :).
-- Gian Uberto Lauri Messaggio inviato da un tablet > On 10/dic/2013, at 21:54, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > >> On Di, 2013-12-10 at 17:56 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> I would not trust backups as an absolute safety > > You don't trust backups? Why? > > Regards, > Ralf > > PS: I make complete backups, IOW I backup everything, don't sync, but > make complete new backups nearly daily. At the end of a month I delete > some of the backups done in that month, but at least keep one for that > month for around the next 365 days. The backups are not done to a drive > that is fix connected to the computer, but to a special external backup > drive. From time to time I copy a backup to two internal drives and data > to other media such as DVDs. > > Nothing is 100% safe, but nothing is more safe than with regularity > backup the install and data. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386708892.2211.29.camel@saucy > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/441f3af8-e081-4335-90a4-bd750db85...@eng.it