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Most Delphi examples I see these days are actually modern, recently written malware samples. It statically compiles into a tiny binary which has a weird ABI which flies under the radar of AV software looking for programs up to no good. What's not to love for this purpose if you are an adversarial actor? The vega/buran strain of ransomware malware comes to mind as a well known example from the past few years [1] [1] https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/meet-buran-new-delphi-ransomw…

Most definitions of the 3-2-1 rule count the original data as one of the 3 copies [1][2][3] and don't go as far as to specify that you should be diversified against literal medium type. (Most recommend an external drive or NAS for your second local copy) The "my house was hit by lightning" case is covered pretty well by your 1 offsite backup. 1. https://www.acronis.com/en-us/articles/backup-rule/ 2. https://www.carbonite.com/blog/article/2016/01/what-is-3-2-1-backup 3. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

An append-only backup is not by definition non-compliant with GDPR. It's important that the individual can be assured that their personal data will not be restored back to production systems (except in certain rare instances, e.g., the need to recover from a natural disaster or serious security breach). In such cases, the user’s personal data may be restored from backups, but the controller will take the necessary steps to honor the initial request and erase the primary instance of the data again. For example: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backups-and-gdpr-right-be-for…

Acronis TrueImage (http://www.acronis.com/trueimage). Both backups and restores are amazingly fast -- in my case, 8 to 10 minutes for just under 60GB.

Acronis, a german corporation, is implementing the GDPR too [0] and they recommend that if possible, you split backups per customer, if that is not practical atleast do your best to protect the data and don't keep it for unnecessary time frames. You should have a retention policy and encrypt your backups. [0]: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backups-and-gdpr-right-be-for… [A0]: http://www.gdprarticles.com/gdpr-articles/data-subject-rights/gdpr-rig… [A1]: GDPR Art. 5 §1 a, b, c and f, §2 [A2]: GDPR Art. 17 §1 b and c, §3 b and e >So now I can't perform impromptu analysis of my own data in any computationally easy way? Security analysis? Analyzing shipping information to optimize in the future? Any analysis will have to be done in a way to make sure you're not exceeding the bounds of network security or you're outside legitimate interest. Analyzing shipping information is the same, as long as you do everything to make sure the data is pseudonimized or not otherwise in risk of leaking personal data, it's fine or alternatively you ask customers about it. >What if retention is reasonably long (a year)? or not (10 years)? Use your own judgement of what is reasonable, worst case you get a letter from the EU asking you to reduce the retention timeframe as long as you made an actual effort to implement the regulation.

Git, ZFS, Raid, 3-2-1 Backup Rule[0], and LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) [0] https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backup-rule/

I did a fairly generic search for Geovision and landed on this: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backdoor-wide-open-critical-v… (not to fear-monger, just something to note)

Don't know why you're getting down voted, that's literally what happened with WannaCry https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/articles/nhs-cyber-attack/

So is knocking out 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel, or nearly 100% of the worlds shipping trade (https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-four-of-the-worlds-largest-shipping-… Or various other industries: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/articles/nhs-cyber-attack/#:~:text=The%2… Every company that is not making major financial investments in securing their infrastructures against cybersecurity attacks are really just waiting for "Not if but when".

> It’s bad that Backblaze did not do their due diligence while integrating with Facebook pixel Here's the thing though, being a third party, due diligence means you constantly have to check what they're doing. Because otherwise how do you know when they suddenly change their script to do something entirely different? This is why having any 3rd party scripts on a dashboard service like this is in my view entirely inexcusable. When I go to visit my cloud-based dashboard for Acronis' backup service[1] there's one single domain involved, and that's how it should be. [1]: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/true-image/

Acronis does online backup these days? And they have client-side encryption? https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_12.5… And it costs $5.83/month for 500GB (not super cheap, but the 500GB offer is still doable)? https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/#buy Neat. I'll definitely be checking this out, thanks a bunch!

Sorry for your loss. Here are my two cents... For complete system backup on Windows use Acronis [0], on MacOS use Carbon Copy Cloner [1] and on Linux Clonezilla [2]. Also never forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups [3], 3 copies, 2 local copies on different mediums and 1 copy offsite (cloud, remote) :-) [0] https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/ [1] https://bombich.com/ [2] https://clonezilla.org/ [3] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

You may try mobileEcho to secure mobile file management. It's a comprehensive, secure solution for: 1) Accessing corporate content on file servers, NAS and SharePoint. 2) Sharing files and content with co-workers and with external parties such as customers, outside partners, and outside vendors (e.g. legal counsel, accountants, banks, etc.) 3)Syncing and sharing content across all of your devices – desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone. 4) and so on Check more here: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/mobilecho/ This is a very important question and I believe that companies need to pay more attention to mobile device management.