[Discuss] Full disk encryption and backups

Edward Ned Harvey blu at nedharvey.com
Tue Jan 3 17:59:00 EST 2012


> Richard Pieri wrote:
> > And this is the great big rub with WDE: backups.  File-level backups
> > are decrypted when sent to the backup system unless the backup system
> > itself re-encrypts everything.

Generalizations galore!  ;-)
I suppose that depends on your choice of backup software, now doesn't it?

In filevault, you have whole disk encryption, and in time machine, you have
backup disk encryption too.




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