Macrium Reflect Password/Encrypt: Yes/No?

In the 1 in a million (at least) chance that I get nailed for ransomware (with Norton and paid Malwarebytes running), I thought I was protected having images stored on an external drive. But I guess you could increase those odds and say the attack came when the drive was connected and then all the images could be corrupted.

To prevent this I could opt to use the Reflect encrypt option. Time is never a problem running the backup and although it would take a lot longer to restore I could live with it if it was a matter of having/not having the data.

How do you all handle this?

I think before I get too worked up about encrypting the backup I ought get up off my a** and finally change the passwords on the DSL modem and bridged router from their factor presets!

Mark

I think this is my last day of the paid home version trial.

1. Do you use the paid version?
2. So just because the data is encrypted doesn't mean that the encrypted data could be further encrypted by ransomware?

And I don't guess you're still are using the factory password for your modem/router!

As well as changing the passwords on routers/modems it's also worth looking at changing your DNS there too, so any ISP weakness is somewhat mitigated.
I'm currently using Cloudflare...1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver


WRT to ransomware the only real option for offline is to keep the drive off any network until you need to create a backup, then remove it again, (and hope there isn't some new sleeper ransomware variant lurking in the background...)

You can use online Cloud for file versioning for documents and files, people have recovered ransomwared files that way
Avoid auto writing them back to the PC/NAS though (sync), and if it's sensitive information maybe only use zero knowledge encrypted providers like Spideroak et al.
There are plenty of review comparisons for all the various mainstream and specialist cloud storage providers out there in webworld.
I use cloud storage but not for anything sensitive that can be used for ID theft or fraud (financial, legal etc.)

Infrasonic said:

As well as changing the passwords on routers/modems it's also worth looking at changing your DNS there too, so any ISP weakness is somewhat mitigated.
I'm currently using Cloudflare...1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver


WRT to ransomware the only real option for offline is to keep the drive off any network until you need to create a backup, then remove it again, (and hope there isn't some new sleeper ransomware variant lurking in the background...)

You can use online Cloud for file versioning for documents and files, people have recovered ransomwared files that way
Avoid auto writing them back to the PC/NAS though (sync), and if it's sensitive information maybe only use zero knowledge encrypted providers like Spideroak et al.
There are plenty of review comparisons for all the various mainstream and specialist cloud storage providers out there in webworld.
I use cloud storage but not for anything sensitive that can be used for ID theft or fraud (financial, legal etc.)

Hi there

Cloudflare can (and has been) a problem quite a few times as that well known site using images of "the Jolly Roger" uses it for scrambling some of their servers to bypass some countries national blocks.

Sometimes it's out of action while "T** Pi***E B** looks for another host address and FBI etc check the cloudflare servers.

Also sometimes it wants those wretched Captcha things - I always have great difficulty with those and they just seem to go on and on without ever being satisfied.

Seriously though IMO Google's public DNS servers are fine - especially the IVP6 ones.

Cheers
jimbo

<<<<<I also feel MR is so good, they deserved some payment.

That's precisely what I've felt for the past few years and really why I plan on purchasing the trial.

I've never done well with incremental and differential images back when I was using Acronis. On the few times I tried restoring one or the other I'd routinely get the error 'can't find the original image' even though the original image was on the same drive, same directory (which, btw, was by far not the only instance of Acronis failing to restore verified images). I gave up on anything but a full restore and haven't been interested since.

I thought that as long as a different drive was as big or bigger the free version would restore the image?