It’s never advised to pay the ransom. According to Veeam’s 2024 Ransomware Trends Report, one in three organizations could not recover their data after paying the ransom. There’s no guarantee the decryption keys will work, and paying the ransom only further incentivizes cybercriminals to con...
If the volume of data to be restored is very large, the cloud backup service might ship the data on a complete storage array that the customer can hook up to its servers to recover its data. This is, in effect, a reverse seeding process. Restoring a large amount of data over a networ...
In the past I found it more convenient and faster to recover an inadvertently deleted folder from my DropBox account than using Macrium Reflect to restore it from the external drive. That may be different if we are talking about many Gigabytes. My primary backup is still the external drive, ...