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The True Cost of Your Data: Accidental Deletion, Ransomware, and the “Exit Tax” of Your Cloud Data (egress) Is your data truly safe with your cloud provider? What if the answer is no? 🚨 In this new episode of À la French, JB Kempf, Steeve Morin, and Mehdi Medjaoui tackle one of the most critical yet neglected topics in tech: backups. To discuss this, they welcome two leading engineers: Gilles Chehade (a long-time contributor to OpenBSD and creator of OpenSMTPD) and Julien Mangeard (former CTO of the Veepee group), respectively CTO and CEO of Plakar. Together, they discuss data backup and how to restore companies' true strategic autonomy in the face of cloud giants (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.). Discover why: A simple snapshot is not a backup. A synchronization is not a backup. Replication is not a backup. A copy is not a backup. A clone is not a backup. A copy in a different S3 bucket is not a backup. A versioned bucket is not a backup. A backup on the same NAS is not a backup. A redundant NAS is not a backup. A copy in the same datacenter is not a backup. An offline copy forgotten for three years is no longer a backup. A backup that is never restored is not a backup. A backup policy is not a backup. Yes, because a backup is an independent, historical, and restorable copy of data, designed to allow a return to a previous state after loss, corruption, or destruction. We explain why current solutions cost a fortune and often fail in a crisis. From industrialized ransomware to catastrophic human errors (we revisit the classic cases of Toy Story 2, GitLab, and Steve's close call at Zenly). How open source is changing the game thanks to radical technical choices and a code philosophy inherited from OpenBSD: Content-Defined Chunking & Dynamic Deduplication to drastically optimize storage. Native and mandatory encryption to block the ransomware threat. Extreme efficiency (minimal RAM footprint) and a bold new archive format called "ptar," perfect for cold storage on magnetic tape and a replacement for tar, which dates back to 1979! If you care about the long-term viability of your infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the true sovereignty of your data, this episode is essential. 🔗 Resources and links: Discover Plakar (Open Source Backup): https://plakar.io/ Support the podcast and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any episodes of À la French! #Tech #Backup #OpenSource #Plakar #Cybersecurity #DigitalSovereignty #ALaFrenchPodcast #Ransomware #CloudComputing #Engineering #OpenBSD #DataProtection