Wow the second point, encrypting the files but providing transparent access for a while thereby corrupting even the backups is really scary. Although maybe thi

Wow the second point, encrypting the files but providing transparent access for a while thereby corrupting even the backups is really scary. Although maybe this would be detected when your incremental backups start saying that all the files have just changed. Some softwares will require manual action if more than x percent of the corpus needs to be resynched.