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backup solution to avoid ransomware

irishgeo · 2016-12-12 15:32:35

ok i want to run a nightly backup using aomei disk backupper which backups to an adi file. i want to backup this to google drive. .adi files are listed in some ransomware files lists. A mapped goolge drive is also vulnerable. so anyway to encrypt the file so a ransomware virus cant encrypt it or to upload it to google…

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12-12-2016 4:32pm

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irishgeo

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ok i want to run a nightly backup using aomei disk backupper which backups to an adi file. i want to backup this to google drive.

.adi files are listed in some ransomware files lists. A mapped goolge drive is also vulnerable.

so anyway to encrypt the file so a ransomware virus cant encrypt it or to upload it to google drive without installing the google drive software?

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#2 12-12-2016 7:35pm
ItHurtsWhenIP

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You could use Veracrypt to create an encrypted container on Google Drive. Then:
Run Googledrivesync.exe

Mount the encrypted container

Run the backup.

Unmount the container.

Wait until drive has synched.

Terminate Googledrivesync.exe.

There's no specific file extension for Veracrypt containers, but I would presume that Ransomware would go after most file types anyway, so killing Googledrivesync.exe would be good protection.

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