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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 12 2015, @10:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 12 2015, @10:23AM (#235529)

    I make the assumption that I am most likely to get zapped with a nasty computer virus and nothing on the host machine can be trusted.

    So, I keep a bootable CDROM of CloneZilla and a USB hard drive with the disk image on it.

    I can store several images on it as the USB HDD is several times the size of the laptop's HDD.

    I figure if worse comes to worse and I get a terminal nailing ( like cryptolocker or something as nasty ), I will just go get a new HDD for the laptop and re-establish the last known good image from the Clonezilla USB image file. That way I still have the intact ( but maybe useless) disk for forensics or post mortem.

    Its a bit lengthy because I only do full backups this way. I occasionally do incremental backups of active project folders. However data files only will be trusted in the event of a malware attack... and I mean data files like EAGLE library, schematic, and board files. Maybe some SPICE files.

    The only Microsoft file format I consider vandal resistant is a .txt file.

    And that only if opened in a non-Microsoft reader.

    My older stuff is archived so redundantly that I have little to worry about there.