Tmed backups and shared folder shut down

[don.good]

Hi, and hope you all don't mind a newbie question.

I have set my backup shared folder PC to start up daily (through power management in BIOS) at 3:00 AM and shut down (by task scheduler) at 4:30 AM after all backups are completed. I have Veeam Agents installed on three other PCs that backup to this share during that time. I have checked and the startup and shutdown are working properly before and after the backups. The backup shared folder PC does nothing else.

I know that this does expose the backups to malware etc. during that time window but am I correct that the backups are safe if not infected or corrupted during that time?

Thanks for any insights you may have.

All the best to everyone,

Don

[PTide]

Hi,

Provided that none of the PCs (including the one that hosts the shared folder) are infected, your backups are safe.

Thanks!

[don.good]

Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated!

Don

[PTide]

Out of curiosity, where does the question come from? I mean, did you have any doubts regarding your air-gap design?

Thanks!