My fail safe is to have a clean image of my hard drive, stored offline. In the event of a catastrophe (hard drive failure, ransomware infection or simply screwing up my drivers and software all by myself), I have a fairly painless way to get the wheels turning again.
It's a good point, but also try always to keep at least 2 copy of the important data, both offline and online in a place you trust (you never know, specially with the shit hitting lately, you may need to rush out, better to have a safe somewhere to which you can access if you lose the device)
If you keep an image of the system to recover, i'd suggest you look for software's like acronis that can create a safe zoon on the hard drive or a boot device (protected from the system), from where you can restore the OS (and also the configs, applications, etc, depending on when you did the image) in 10 minutes, and at the same if you need you can boot the image up in an esxi or hyper-v server
My fail safe is to have a clean image of my hard drive, stored offline. In the event of a catastrophe (hard drive failure, ransomware infection or simply screwing up my drivers and software all by myself), I have a fairly painless way to get the wheels turning again.
It's a good point, but also try always to keep at least 2 copy of the important data, both offline and online in a place you trust (you never know, specially with the shit hitting lately, you may need to rush out, better to have a safe somewhere to which you can access if you lose the device)
If you keep an image of the system to recover, i'd suggest you look for software's like acronis that can create a safe zoon on the hard drive or a boot device (protected from the system), from where you can restore the OS (and also the configs, applications, etc, depending on when you did the image) in 10 minutes, and at the same if you need you can boot the image up in an esxi or hyper-v server