NODE e68d188eBackup of Encrypted Partition
Sanwar Ali <sanwar@bclimser.demon.co.uk>Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:43:33 +0800
Hi
Apologies if this is too much of a beginner's Q.
Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape
quickly and easily.
HPACK is really slow.
PKZIP and then PGP is slow.
RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I
am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake.
I have about 100MB in the partition. I have a pretty out of date
computer which is a 386 33MHz running Windows.
Any ideas and all the best.
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NODE 3e9e4d40Re: Backup of Encrypted Partition
"Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:01:00 +0800
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On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Sanwar Ali wrote:
> Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape
> quickly and easily.
>
> HPACK is really slow.
>
> PKZIP and then PGP is slow.
>
> RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I
> am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake.
I don't think that you can avoid the speed problem. The SecureDrive TSR
has to decrypt the data on the disk and this can be a slow procedure when
dealing with 100 megabytes. You could speed up the backup procedure by
turning off compression. I know that pkzip has this option, but I'm not
sure about any of the other programs you mention.
- --Mark
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