What do you do to protect your Terabyte Images? I have been doing something which seems somewhat unsafe. I image to one internal hard drive, followed by copying that image file to several other internal hard drives (hard drive failure protection). If malware were to infect my PC, could the malware Delete my Image files? Is there a way to protect these Image files from Deletion? I have heard that it is best to image to external USB Hard Drives and keep them disconnected when not making/restoring images. What do you do with your Images? Image Files Access: Lets say your PC becomes infected. You then make cold image using Image for Linux (Image file made to external USB hard drive), followed by taking that image to a non-infected Windows PC, accessing the image using the Terabyte tools. Is it safe to do file access/file copy of an infected Image on a non-infected Windows PC? Thanks in Advance.
TheKid7, ProtectIt is not installed by default if you are using the Traditional install option. When you install TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite you have to manually select it. It is installed by default with the Simple Operations mode option. ProtectIt: Installs a driver to protect the contents of the TeraByte_TBI_Backups folders from being modified by other Windows applications. Protection only applies to running Windows installations and not other Windows installations without the driver installed. I image to an internal drive too. That drive contains a TeraByte_TBI_Backups folder. Later, I copy some image files to an external HD for onsite and offsite storage. If you don't have ProtectIt, just reinstall TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite over the top of your current installation and select ProtectIt during the install. Manually create a TeraByte_TBI_Backups folder in the root of a partition.
Why can't you just use Windows Defender's controlled folder access and restrict access to whatever folder has your .tbi files? You restrict the folder, then allow any Terabyte .exe file read/write access to it. Easy.
