Would it be possible/effective to mount the drive as write-only, making it impossible to change existing files?
Given the type of backup you are perform (a "push"), there is nothing you can do to prevent an active infection from destroying your backups while the HD is mounted. In theory, a backup to a blind drop may provide some protection, but there is no backup solution that I am aware of that will work without read access to at least its own metadata. Perhaps a developer opportunity?
REQUIRING a company to manufacture a specific product???
I might be inclined to agree with you, except for the fact that Actavis engaged in cynical manipulation of patent law to obtain protection that they were not entitled to. I say throw the book at them!
That's pretty much the same statement as saying nothing interesting or innovative has happened in IT in the last 40 years.
Thanks for the clarification, that's exactly what I'm saying. Oh yes, there was nothing crude about the 3850.
The IBM 3850 mass storage system, announced in 1974, held up to 472G on strips of magnetic tape. The 3850 was a rectangular box large enough walk into, with the strips stored along its interior walls in a honeycomb arrangement of slots. A pair of robotic pickers took turns running along a set of rails where they would fetch a tape strip, carry it to a device that wrapped it around a drum for read/write access, and later return it to its slot. You could watch it operating through a window in the box (IBM loved to show off their stuff).
My point is that none of this is new. It is neither interesting nor innovative.
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second