On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:28, Rembrandt wrote: > I know guys wich are working as administrators at a newspaper. > They make backups.. yes.. > But they make it only for 1 week (couse there's too much data). > So they're able to restore all files wich changed since date X. > But what's about a virii wich infects the files and waits until a > special date? > Or what's about logic-bombs? Its not the job of an anti-virus solution to compensate for inadequate backups. This is inadequate because if you may need a file from a month ago your backup solution should be able to deliver that. A weekly rotation is only any good if the files you are backing up will genuinely not be needed for longer than a week. There are plenty of adequate ways to minimise the amount of media needed to perform much longer term backups (for example the Tower of Hanoi method).
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