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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Canadian university buckles and pays $20k in bitcoin to hackers
by
greyhawk
on 09/06/2016, 21:15:17 UTC
Best way is to backup using tapes, which few organizations do in the age of the cloud.

Is that still a thing? Why would a tape be better than ...oh, any other format?

Yes tapes are still a thing because they are the cheapest per GB at $0.01/GB and have lower error rates than drives and generally last longer. http://www.overlandstorage.com/blog/?p=323

Main reason is some tapes cannot be overwritten, so its not possible for ransomware to encrypt your backups. That happens quite a lot http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=4046