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Old June 15th 07, 11:51 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
bealoid
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Default encrypting backups?

Does anyone here encrypt their back ups?

I was readng this post in another group . . .
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.. . .and it's something he suggests that he wants to do.

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Old June 16th 07, 01:25 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Arno Wagner
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Default encrypting backups?

Previously bealoid wrote:
Does anyone here encrypt their back ups?


I was readng this post in another group . . .
Message-ID: .com


. . .and it's something he suggests that he wants to do.


Depends. I work with some confidential data on occasion.
For this data, backups go eiter onto encrypted disks or I
encrypt the archive file with GnuPG.

Arno
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Old June 16th 07, 07:04 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rod Speed
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Default encrypting backups?

bealoid wrote:

Does anyone here encrypt their back ups?


Nope, what data that matters is encrypted on the
hard drive, so its encrypted in the backup too.

I was readng this post in another group . . .
Message-ID: .com


. . .and it's something he suggests that he wants to do.



 




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