[Noisebridge-discuss] Encrypted Backups

[John Menerick]

I use truecrypt on many of my disk io intensive machines.   I see a  
performance hit around 10-15%.

There are hard drives which encrypt at the hardware layer.

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On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:40, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:

> Caveat: I know how to encrypt a drive and copy data to it already.
> Thanks. This is about painfreeness...
>
> Does anyone know of a good drive backup solution, preferably for OS X,
> that backups *and* encrypts. I normally use Carbon Copy Cloner (or
> Superduper) to automatically back up my main drive to a variety of
> portal drives whenever I connect them to my main computer. Some of
> these are kept near my desk (as safety backups) and at least one is
> squirreled away somewhere and I bring it in once a week.
> Unfortunately, I'm not encrypting these drives because neither of
> these tools does that.
>
> I don't have anything terribly sensitive on my machine besides tax
> returns for a few years and papers to do with my dad's death a few
> years ago but I'd like to find a backup solution that did the same
> copying but also encrypted the drives. I've thought about trying to
> use Truecrypt to encrypt the partition on these drives and then
> mounting that to see how well it works but, in my experience,
> Truecrypt is some slow ass shit and the idea of transferring 200 GB to
> a Truecrypt drive does not fill me with assurance that it will work
> well. I've also had stability issues with Truecrypt in the past.
>
> Any suggestions from anyone here?
>
> Al
>
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