if you backup your vm data to the same provider as you run your vm on you don’t have an ‘off-site’-backup, which is one criteria of the 3-2-1 backup rule.
Comment on what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ?
kristoff@infosec.pub 8 months agoWell, the issue here is that your backup may be physically in a different location (which you can ask to host your S3 backup storage in a different datacenter then the VMs), if the servers themselfs on which the service (VMs or S3) is hosted is managed by the same technical entity, then a ransomware attack on that company can affect both services.
So, get S3 storage for your backups from a completely different company?
I just wonder to what degree this will impact the bandwidth-usage of your VM if -say- you do a complete backup of your every day to a host that will be comsidered as “of-premises”
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 8 months ago
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 months ago
yeah, you can use another cloud provider as backup.. if you do it correctly.
personally, my disaster recovery plans dont include entire offsite VMs. i only care about data in a dr situation. so you send incremental daily backups offsite.
containers have made VMs even more irrelevant/ephemeral so focus on the data.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I assume “data” includes your container configuration files in this strategy?
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
Those are pretty easy to store off site since they shouldn’t change often.