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<DIV>I have had my laptop encrypted (full disk) with truecrypt for years and have had no issues whatsoever with it. I work mostly with Novell products, so I have their iFolder installed to sync all of my files/folders to my server at home. This is automatic and transparent. Think of on-prem DropBox. I used to have this server co-located, so that also addressed my off-site backups, but that changed recently. I have a vm setup off-site that I rsync the data off to nightly. I'm fortunate that I have a place to do this for free, but I was using a vm running on AWS for a while to handle this. It worked very well and was only running me about $30/mo. You can have as much storage as you like, but read the details on the pricing. It is difficult to estimate up front. I started small to get an idea of the cost and then added more data later when I saw that it wasn't too bad.</DIV>
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<DIV>Keith Larson</DIV>
<DIV>Franklin Computer Services - K12group</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:klarson@k12group.net">klarson@k12group.net</A></DIV>
<DIV>(614) 561-4887 (mobile)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></SPAN><BR><BR>>>> Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby@gmail.com> 2/6/2014 10:17 PM >>><BR><BR>Any one have experience with truecrypt? No real problem with it, just a little anxious to delete original files that I have put in a truecrypt volume, like my taxes for the last several years. I’m afraid I’m going to do something dumb like accidentally delete the one (10GB thick-provisioned) file that has everything in it, or that somehow truecrypt will stop working.<BR><BR>The other thing I’m wondering the best way to deal with is to off-site backup the volume. You can’t diff the volume, since it is a binary file. Repeatedly copying a 10GB file will start to annoy the place you’re uploading it to. Would it make more sense to create a local and remote truecrypt volume and do something with rsync to keep the contents in sync as long as both volumes are open? Hmm, I’m wondering if a hosting provider like DH would even allow that sort of thing (assuming it was possible now that I think about it?)<BR><BR>Basically it boils down to looking for suggestions/experience/advice to both secure sensitive files in case of theft and have them similarly secured when they live in a remote location. i.e., I’m not going to put my tax documents on my Google drive unless they’re inside a container that Google or anyone else cannot read. Even then I’m not super comfortable with that.<BR><BR>thanks!<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>colug-432 mailing list<BR>colug-432@colug.net<BR><A href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>