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alexis- / BitShelter

Snapshots & Backups for Windows
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Backup tab not functional? #11

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

I'm not able to add a backup location when creating or editing a scheduled snapshot.

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alexis- commented 3 years ago

Hi sobake,

Only snapshots were implemented in BitShelter for the time being. But it turns out that just two days ago I made plan to resume my work on BitShelter. I'm not satisfied with existing backup technologies so I need to add these features in BitShelter for my personal usage.

Is there something in particular that is important for you?

ghost commented 3 years ago

I'd say top of mind is a snapshot and backup strategy which allows me to recover from accidental file modification or intentional in case of a virus or ransomware infection.

From what I understand, modern ransomware employ a number of techniques to delete or corrupt shadow copies and the various mechanisms used to create them.

Currently, I'm using FreeNAS in a Hyper-V virtual machine with a passthrough 4tb hard disk to store scheduled backups of just my files and home security recordings via SMB. I also have scheduled ZFS snapshots every 5 mins and daily which are also rotated and disposed of every so often.

Combining incremental full system backups (with wbadmin -vssCopy), scheduled VSS snapshots and ZFS snapshots (on a different machine and drive) could be a reasonable solution to recover from complete system loss and accidental file modification.