IMHO if you care enough about your data to use whole disk encryption,
you care enough about your data to setup an encrypted backup, such as
ssh secured dirvish, or Bacula over local network, or even over a vpn.
Even a laptop can be backed up well while on net using Bacula. We have
several field laptops that go to tape nightly when on net, and the users
are instructed to leave the laptops on at night for that purpose.
I am seriously considering setting up True Crypt for all of our laptop
users, as a government unit, we have significant data loss prevention
issues.
For a long time I was concerned about data encryption due to the
inability to get at it if a user loses their password, but I think True
crypt has some master key options that we can deploy as well. I have
been looking over documentation on it quite a bit today.
http://www.dirvish.org/
http://www.bacula.org/en/
Harry
Brian Weeden wrote:
Hard disk maintenance tools like Spin Rite will work just fine but
you're right, data recovery would be a pain.
Another reason to always backup your data.
On Feb 6, 2008 6:47 PM, j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Likely no more than EFS does but would depend on the
type of encryption used.
Ben Ruset wrote:
I wonder how much overhead encrypting the system
partition puts on the
system.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I've been using TrueCrypt for a while to do
encrypted data partitions and
this is very welcome news. Free, open source, very
strong encryption for
Windows, Linux, and OSX:
http://www.truecrypt.org
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