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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

Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:32 AM

Encryption And Off-Site Backup Storage

These notes are a journal of discovery. The end-user documentation can be obtained from my Digital Download Store.

My office is on the ground floor with three networked computers. I am worried about break-ins. The loss of my data would be stunning. Loss of client confidence might destroy my business. What can you tell me about encryption and off-site backup storage?

Quite a bit, over the next few pages.

The good news? You can implement this scheme yourself for about $100 per machine, maybe less by the time you read this.

You need very little in the way of technical expertise.

These notes are a step-by-step journey to achieving a sensible solution to the problem of loss of data.

You can read them serially, one article at a time, or you can skip directly to the solution. As much as possible I’ll isolate the task into digestible chunks.

And yes, I know this isn’t a solution in VBA. It’s better than that!

(This is going to be fun for me; possibly the first time in my life that I haven’t felt it necessary to issue The Customary Warning: “Back Up All Your Files Before You Try This”).

Overview

Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:32 AM