> While you might consider doing a full encryption for both your personal laptop and/or desktop, in case one of these gets stolen, you should avoid encryption o

> While you might consider doing a full encryption for both your personal laptop and/or desktop, in case one of these gets stolen, you should avoid encryption on backup and storage when it really isn't needed because encryption adds yet another layer of complexity. Wrong. Not encrypting your backups when your daily use systems are encrypted makes no sense. Seriously. Why go through the hassle of figuring out a password, when one can steal the unencrypted off site backup? You want simple encryption? Me too! Use dm-crypt/LUKS. It's been in every modern Linux distro for at least 10 years. If you can plug your encrypted external drive into a live/freshly installed Linux desktop and a encryption prompt comes up, you're in luck!