January 24 and February 3, I reported the CryptoGuard and LibreOffice x86 on Windows 圆4 issue. I think it is essential to learn and share how best to manage and maintain a quality testing environment for HMPA as well as those additional security products SurfRight/Sophos suggests is essential to a complete security some feedback on what I reported earlier. I don’t consider such suggestions off topic. If on a given day I’m doing a lot of testing and recovery I’ll simply run the scheduled task manually for as many times as needed.Ībout the only maintenance involved is every couple of months I’ll delete some of the older system images to reacquire storage space. If something ‘bad’ happens during testing I can recover in a few minutes simply by re-imaging a system using an image from one of the previous days. The task takes about 8 minutes to complete a 50GB transfer. In my setup I have a daily scheduled task that transfers a full system image to a NAS device containing two 8TB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration.

My suggestion to NiteRanger was to use a home NAS device to provide storage for complete images as well as full and incremental backups without the bother of reattaching an external drive particularly in the case of hourly incremental backups. In my opinion this wasn’t going to be a workable solution since the OP indicated he is using a tablet device. In the reply NiteRanger received from cruelsister in post #13479 it was suggested to add an internal drive for incremental backups. Both offer entry level iSCSI-based NAS products:Ĭlick to expand.NiteRanger’s comments in post #13477 indicated he wished to store whole system images externally to an always connected storage drive. Having said that there are similar NAS solutions scaled for individuals and smaller workgroups, two companies come to mind, QNAP and Synology.

Hourly incremental snapshots are possible but there just hasn’t been any demand. Some images are stored for security testing purposes while others are maintained for daily system backups. Network servers, network attached storage devices and possibly even cloud-based storage services provide a level of isolation and protection particularly from those ransomware types designed to rewrite and encrypt a system’s master boot record.Īt work we use Dell PowerVault storage arrays for storing system images with several containing multiple 64TB RAID arrays.

Then there is the issue of protecting physically attached backup drives from malware intrusion. There may be the odd device which could accommodate PC-Card/PCMCIA HDD, mini SSD, or M.2 expansion but those would be rare. Click to expand.Notebook/tablet style devices tend not to provide internal space for installing additional storage drives particularly those having rotational platter designs.

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