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Backup is about avoiding loss of data; it is a trade-off between frequency of backups (more backups mean more work and more storage) and tolerance on loss of the most recent data. When you backup your data daily, you implicitly tolerate losing one day's worth of work. Correspondingly, there is no need to backup again data which has not changed -- as long as ...
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There's not nearly enough information here to give a definitive answer. I can, however, leave you with a few things to think about and make a decision on based on your evaluation of risk. The most important thing to remember is that losing your encryption key is equivalent to losing ALL backup sets encrypted with that key.
In light of that, what are your ...
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I want to close the back doors into my system.
I believe that is your answer. You need to perform some incident response and find out what the cause of your breach was and close the holes that you have found.
Security is a mulch-layered approach, you will want some software like firewalls, antivirus, intrusion detection, etc. at the system level and ...
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You can probably negotiate with your bank to allow you to use night deposit bags for drive storage. Pad it so the drive can cope with shocks from lots of coins. You can arrange so they won't open your bags. During the day, somebody can move the backup disk in a safety deposit box.
That said, with the data encrypted, your current solution isn't necessarily a ...
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As with many of these things, the answer is, "Well, it depends"
If you are happy reinstalling the OS from disk, or rebuilding from an image and simply adding in your data files, then maybe you just need to back up your data files. But is your saved image up to date with patches and config changes? Would the OS require thousands of updates if you reinstalled ...
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