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Encryption And Off-site Backup Storage (Home) ; Overview ; The Problem ; The Essence Of The Solution ; How Long Does It Take To Do A Backup? ; Assumptions ; Breakdown Of Tasks ; The Stand-Alone Solution ; The Networked Solution ; Let’s Get Started ; Mounting The Backup Drive ; Mounting An Encrypted Drive ; Waiting For The Backup Drive ; Processing Each Local Drive ; RoboCopy New And Later Files ; RoboCopy Parameter Files ; Append Session Details To A Log File ; Shutting Down the Computer ; Review For Local Systems ; Putting Together The Local Backup System ; SUBSTituting A Drive For A Folder ; Assembling The Batch File ; ( TITLE commands ); Running The Backup Batch File ; Examining Our Results ; Waiting For A Set Of Drives ; Issue the Backup Command To A Set Of Drives ; Modifying The Driving Batch File ; What About The Log File? ; The Upgraded Set Of Batch Files ; Encryption of backup data ; What Is Involved In Encrypting A Backup Device? ; ( Advice On Passwords ); What Is Involved In Mounting An Encrypted Device? ; User Mounted Or Automated? ; Using A DOS Batch File To Facilitate Mounting ; Using A DOS Batch File To Facilitate Dismounts ; Making The External Drives Available Across The Network ; Mounting A Shared Drive For Sharing ; Installing On A Networked Computer ; Running On The Big Beige Box ; An Improved Method Of Waiting ; Shutdown Or Restart? ; At Long Last! A Working Version! ; The Backup.BAT file ; The Mount.BAT file ; The ProcessDrive.BAT file ; The Shutdown.BAT File ; The Encryption Process

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Breakdown Of Tasks

We’ll keep this simple by approcahing the overall solution in small, digestible chunks.

Here’s the first breakdown:

Standalone backups (one system per local machine)

Networked backups (one system for a collection of machines on a Local Area network (LAN).

Here’s another breakdown:

No encryption of backup data

Encryption of backup data

Here’s another breakdown:

No encryption of local data

Encryption of local data

Here’s another breakdown:

Process a single local drive(Please see “AllDrive.BAT” in Assembling The Batch File ).

Process all local drives

Here’s another breakdown:

Backup to a single drive

Backup to multiple drives

And so on. As much as possible I’ll present material on a take-it-or-leave-it basis so you can adapt as little or as much as you want.

We will also look at

Installation of the Backup System

Timing of the Backup Process

Storage of the Backup Drives

But now let’s look at:

The Stand-Alone Solution

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Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:31 AM

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