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> (...) taking incremental backups of the entire VM is the best way to ensure you can hit the big undo button if anything goes wrong.

What if your server is already compromised? Doesn't that approach ensure your server remains compromised after you pressed the big undo button?




Potentially, depends when it happened, which point you restore to, and if the vulnerability that got them in in the first place is still present. If one of my servers got hacked I personally wouldn't risk it, and would just nuke it and rebuild. If everything's in Docker containers then the services can be torn down and spun up easily, and databases can be exported from a backup VM and imported into the new server.




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