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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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Making The External Drives Available Across The Network

We will want the server’s external drives to be available to other computers on the network, so that each local computer can effect its own backup to the external drive.

Sharing. If you are unfamiliar with this practice, please have your network administrator or Local Friendly Technician advise you or implement the sharing for you.

In Windows Explorer, right-click on the external drive(s) and choose Properties from the pop-up window.

Select the Sharing tab and check ON both Share This Folder and Allow Network Users.

There will be a short delay while Windows adjusts folder properties across the drive.

In the example above I have given the shared drive a name “LapX” that represents it as my drive “X” mounted on the LapTop computer.

When this is done, your drive icon will show that it is being offered to other users. See the drive now being "handed" to other users across the network.

Share both (or each!) of your encrypted external USB drives.

Once this is complete, walk over to another computer on your network, and use Windows explorer to check that that local computer can see the mounted external USB drive son your main computer.

Below is a screen snapshot taken from my Big Beige Box.

(At this stage you might want to satisfy yourself that everything is properly shared by shutting down and re-booting both systems, mounting the encrypted external drives, and seeing them from your local computers).

If it increases your confidence, on one of the local computers, create a small file – a Notepad text file will suffice – and save it across the network to the root folder on your external dives. back on your server, open up the file and feel good about yourself!

Mounting A Shared Drive For Sharing

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