[iBook] encrypted backup onto external hd

[Luypaert, Johan (Johan)]

Justin, Joe, Benjamin,

Thanks for the replies. I spent some time playing around with silverkeeper, the apple disk utility and data backup (prosoft) and decided I'm going to build something myself. 

The only thing I want encrypted are my personal documents. So I'm going to back these up onto cd with roxio toast (encrypted). Then I will just make a copy of all the other stuff in my home directory onto a partition on the external hard drive. For the moment I'll just drag and drop ... but the goal is to write a script to do this for me and have some kind of check if a document is changed or not before copying. This is like a motivation to start playing around with AppleScript :) 

Thanks for your replies,

Johan.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Herald [mailto:justin.herald at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 3:19
> To: A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers.
> Subject: Re: [iBook] encrypted backup onto external hd
> 
> 
> Would he have to make a partition? Couldn't one just create a 
> new image 
> on the external drive and make it AES-128? I would also make it 
> compressed so that it might be possible to fit more on the external 
> disk.
> 
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 7:12 PM, Joe Roberts wrote:
> 
> > Disk Utilities would do the trick, until your hard drive 
> got too big 
> > for the partition you'd have to create.  Dantz Retrospect is what I 
> > use.
> >
> > --Joe!
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:13 AM, Luypaert, Johan (Johan) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a solution to backup the data on my iBook 
> data onto 
> >> an external LaCie firewire disk.
> >>
> >> I would like to accomplish two things:
> >> 1) I want an encrypted backup of my complete home directory on the 
> >> external disk
> >> 2) I would like to use the remaining space for less 
> important stuff. 
> >> (Things already on cdrom / dvd.)
> >>
> >> Silverkeeper 1.1 was included with the LaCie external HD, 
> and has the 
> >> functionality I want to have. It allows me to compare / check and 
> >> synchronize the files on my internal HD and and the 
> external HD. But 
> >> there's no option to encrypt ... :(
> >>
> >> What are you guys using for encrypted backups on an external disk?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Johan.
> >>
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