Label an Offsite Backup Solution

Data recovery from a ransomware infection is something we and our Partners help customers with daily. We hear and read about what happens to some people who had an offsite backup solution in place, the problem was they never actually tested to recovery process; when they did it was too late. Realizing all-too-late something was misconfigured or that the offsite backup software was not capable of getting the correct data needed. The other thing that happens is that there was no integrity checking of the data, this is where the deep checking happens with the offsite backup service, ensuring all the data is actually on disk and not written to a bad sector, or just completely missing in action. WholesaleBackup calls this a rigorous sync check and we can’t emphasize this feature enough, since hardware alone is not completely reliable. We actually build this feature defaulted to ‘on’ into our AWS S3 and Google (GCP), and Wasabi offsite backup solutions so it’s already happening on every backup cycle.