Virus Attack!

I agree with you. A separate partition = Windows + AV, doesn't make any difference. Like a malware can infect all snapshots, there is also malware that can infect all partitions.
You have to work with clean images and clean archives, stored on an off-line external HDD.
Anything what is constantly on-line is vulnerable and that's why you need something clean off-line to get back in business.

 

well actually albert, you silly goose, i keep that partition hidden- in the event that a virus infects my snapshots, i will boot to my acronis disk director cd, unhide the partition, boot to it, and hence use the virus scanner to kill the malevolent offender attacking my isrs- what say ye?

 

Still not good enough, because the cleaning of all your other partitions and snapshots is based on an AV. You depend too much on scanners and when they tell you "0 threats found", you believe it.
The AV, you use, might not even find the malware, because it isn't discovered yet and what then ? Wait for a signature ?

 

well in all good honesty, scanning plays only a granular role in my security schema- i use avast server, which doesn't employ heuristics, so i augment it's very good signature based approach with an ids, mamutu. online armor serves the role of classical h.i.p.s, along with the complementing and sometimes overlapping h.i.p.s. of the antileak control module of AGNITUM firewall, the true best...

i also have a portable, full updatable version of the kaspersky scanning engine, with due respects, just to double check behind avast...

superantispyware full, no resident, but one scheduled weekly scan, just for the hell of it...

opera 9 via proxomitron, sandboxed...

all unnecessary services turned off, all unrequired autostarts disabled, has my machine running like a hungry lean serengeti lion...

several bmr images via acronis image server, as well as many fdisr snaps, of varying configs- with the failsafe os installed on hidden partition, for virus killing in event my fdisr gets infected.

howd that do albert? you've any other questions? i'll gladly indulge you.

Thanks,
Chrome

 

Wouldn't clean images and clean archives, stored on an off-line external HDD have been easier to set-up...and cheaper...and less over-kill...and left nothing to chance It's like 1/2 the police force protecting your house and the other 1/2 protecting the first half. It's just an observation, not a judgement...

 

Good observation !! the simpler the better.

 

My favority motto : "Simplicity is always brilliant."

 

Is it possible to create a snapshot on another partition or external hard drive??

 

No, that is not possible, but you can store archives anywhere.

 

If you have FDISR archive on another internal drive and in addition to that want to have a stored copy of a certain snapshot on an external usb drive, use "Export", if the usb happens to be in FAT 32 use "split if needed", the copying is the same as to the "archive" in speed and only minor size difference in compression...

 

That's how i practice matters anymore myself with FD-ISR archives, they keep 100% Safe with a fully unplugged internal after archiving to that disk which saves me really from even having to turn to my image backup, so with BOTH images & archives saved, theres double the rescue preserver in event of any serious trouble with main system operations.

I'm not sure how reliable they still are but i even have archived to DVD since i haven't accessed them in many months.