Of all the things our company does badly, I can actually say backups are pretty close to perfect! They are monitored closely for issues since they run all day every day and are tested quarterly to make sure they work. They also have to since it's part of the yearly audit. Also, they have saved us numerous times from little things like people deleting stuff to full system restores due to bad changes. Thankfully, we never needed them due to our company being compromised... and really hope we never do.

[–] skittlebrau 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile at the place I used to work, my boss had a single hard drive holding 10 years of unencrypted client data that he expected me to use day-to-day for live tasks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What a cybersecurity nightmare!

[–] skittlebrau 2 points 4 months ago

I forgot to mention, all of the client passwords for things like web hosting and social media accounts were in a plain text Word document too. The boss didn’t think there was anything wrong with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope you are protecting your backups really well too

[–] HeyJoe 5 points 4 months ago

Yup, 2 copies all encrypted. 1 copy kept Onsite and 1 copy kept offsite, and then 1 copy sent to long term storage offsite after 3 months (i forget how long we keep them in long term storage). 1 backup every 24 hours. If the server hosts a dB it also has its own set of maintenance rules with full and incremental changes going from 1 hour down to 15 min depending upon its usage and importance. The storage used is insane but it's required for our area.