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Why am I down voted? My laptop HD was encrypted, it got corrupted, and I lost the entire drive. If even a few bytes are corrupted, you are SOL. Luckily, I ha
by paulhauggis 15y ago
Why am I down voted?
My laptop HD was encrypted, it got corrupted, and I lost the entire drive. If even a few bytes are corrupted, you are SOL.
Luckily, I had an offsite backup (unencrypted) I'm just warning people about the dangers of not keeping an unecrypted backup.
- SamReidHughes 15y ago> Luckily, I had an offsite backup (unencrypted) Don't call that luck. You should be proud of yourself.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoWhy isn't your offsite backup encrypted too? Yes, if your data is corrupted, and your backups are corrupted, then you lose your data. That's the case regardless of whether or not you're using encryption. I use FDE on my laptop. My backups are also encrypted. I use duplicity which basically tars up the files and then encrypts using GnuPG. It only tars up the changes between each run, so I have incremental backups, and version history of every single file on my system. All encrypted - https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Backups_for_Linux https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...