[BBLISA] home Backup systems [was Re: Verizon: No p2p blocking]

[Dewey Sasser]

On 6/18/2010 9:24 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>> Behalf Of bblisa at rootme.org
>>
>> In the arms race, malware authors are winning hands
>> down.
>>     
> I'll second that.  Bigtime.  The advice I give people, and that I follow
> myself, is to have good complete-system backups, and at the first sign of
> anything infecting your system, take no chances.  Nuke the computer back to
> yesterday or a week ago.  Hopefully you noticed something was wrong at the
> time it began, or roughly.
>   

On a related note...

Does someone have a recommendation for home Windows bare-metal restore
system?  I use BackupPC which is great for backing up data and does just
fine for Linux restores but is not reported to work well for Windows
system/program (registry!) restores.  I've tried Acronis True Image
which seems to work very well against local storage but I'm not going to
pay at home for a network level backup system.

I consider this question appropriate for BBLISA because, probably like
many others here, I have a bias towards running my home system the way I
run my work system:  minimal effort and I don't want to deal with
individual machines.

I also use BackupPC at work in a several hundred VM environment and can
definitely recommend it.

Thanks,

--
Dewey