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Discussion on: A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack

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Sebastien Cagnon

what happens when I am infected? Wouldn't rsync or equivalent simply sync the encrypted files to the cloud service?

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Victoria Drake

Yup. Someone else pointed out that having separated, incremental backups gives you the ability to revert to an older, non-compromised one, should that happen. (Like a Git commit.)