If you use keyfile(s) then passwords are not an issue. You just issue your users a small capacity thumbdrive encrypted by TC w/ password to protect the keyfile(s) on it. Or if you are serious pick up some IronKeys and use them to store keyfile(s). Don't know how this affects the new TC version if it's pre-boot security but works great post-boot to mount my secure documents partition.
Yes you can/should backup but there some data that is too large for backup yet you want stored securely (temp files like downloads) or windows goes whacky between backups & you rather not loose the changed data. I have had this happen under DriveCrypt & previous versions of TC where your entire container/partition is useless due to corruption in the beginning of the container. On an unencrypted partition there is always the ability to do sector-by-sector. Even windows EFS worst you loose is 1 file, so TC & the like to be as recoverable IMHO. Harry McGregor wrote: > 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
