[colug-432] disk recovery

[pat at linuxcolumbus.com]

On 2016-09-23 08:56, Brian Miller wrote:
> This won't really help with the disk issue, but to automate the backup
> of my wife's system, I run an "at" job on my backup server.  It checks
> if her system in up (I've assigned a static address through DHCP).  If
> it's up, I run rsync through an SSH tunnel to back it up.  If it's not,
> I reset the script to re-run in 5 hours.  I sometimes go a day without 
> a
> backup, but not often.
> 
> And since the connection comes from my backup server, there is no
> constant drive mapping, so ransomware programs shouldn't get to it.
> Even better, I get an email when the backup runs.  I can check the
> amount of data being backed up.  rsync is pretty effecient, so the
> amount of actual data is pretty low.  If I saw a huge jump in the 
> amount
> of data backed up, that would be in indication of an infection . . .
> 

Do you do any verification before you backup to say, check if the files 
were encrypted by a ransomware program?

Pat