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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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Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:29 AM
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The Encryption Process
How Long Does It Take?
Less than nineteen hours!
I have just completed re-formatting and then re-TrueCrypting an old 400GB IDE drive on my old Big Beige Box.
The formatting took an hour or so, maybe.
In the screen snapshot you can see that there are two reported sizes. The IDE drive is nominally a 400GB drive. Windows XP reports it as having 372GB.
I decided to run a full scan on the formatted drive prior to TrueCrypting it. may was well. The scan took about three hours.
I started the encryption of the entire volume at 17:45 p.m. last night and it completed at 12:15 p.m today.
That’s close to nineteen hours.
You will be TrueCrypting a USB 2.0 drive – much faster than an IDE – on a machine that is almost sure to be faster than my old Big Beige Box.
If you start the TrueCrypt process when you close your office, it should be complete when you arrive for work the next morning.
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Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:29 AM
Copyright © 1996-2010 Chris Greaves. All Rights Reserved.