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Publisher, Mechanical Turk and the EU Data Act: could you still open your data?

Software and services come and go, but will your data survive? Microsoft has retired Publisher, Amazon gave Mechanical Turk customers 5 weeks’ notice, and a new part of the EU Data Act took effect. BackupAssist founder Linus Chang looks at what the 3 stories say about who decides whether you can use your own data.

Network Attached Storage (NAS) device displaying snapshot timelines, backup validation, storage analytics, and recovery dashboards for ransomware resilience.
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Ubiquiti UNAS — Experimental testing methodology

Companion document to the Snapshots for ransomware resilience – research report. It documents the full experimental procedure and screenshot evidence behind that report’s scorecard, in

NAS device displaying multiple snapshot layers with a server rack in the background, illustrating NAS snapshots for ransomware protection and data recovery.
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Snapshots for ransomware resilience – Ubiquiti NAS research report

In the fight against ransomware, every extra security mechanism aimed at preserving and shielding backups from attack can be helpful in ensuring you have a viable recovery point.

We tested the latest NAS offering from Ubiquiti, and scored the Ubiquiti NAS a 5.5/10 for cyber-resilience. While this score may seem low, in reality we believe this device offers good “bang for buck” and is far superior to the common practice of backing up to a Windows share (which scores 1/10).

NAS device displaying multiple snapshot layers with a server rack in the background, illustrating NAS snapshots for ransomware protection and data recovery.
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DRAFT:Snapshots for ransomware resilience – Ubiquiti NAS research report

In the fight against ransomware, every extra security mechanism aimed at preserving and shielding backups from attack can be helpful in ensuring you have a viable recovery point.

We tested the latest NAS offering from Ubiquiti, and scored the Ubiquiti NAS a 5.5/10 for cyber-resilience. While this score may seem low, in reality we believe this device offers good “bang for buck” and is far superior to the common practice of backing up to a Windows share (which scores 1/10).

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Your backup slowed to a crawl. The drive isn’t faulty.

Your backup job starts at 150 MB/s. An hour later it’s doing 25 — no errors, no warnings, nothing obviously wrong. This kind of problem is so baffling that it’s easy to blame the backup software. But nine times out of ten, the culprit is something far more mundane: you bought the wrong type of hard drive.