At 11:31 AM -0700 12/16/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >If you want to keep files safe, you can use a variant of the FileVault >system: create password-protected disk images via Disk Utility and >use those to store your sensitive information. > >This is preferable because if something messes those up all you lose >is those files, not your entire user directory. Moreover, you can >store, for example, each client's files in a different disk image, >thus distributing your eggs among several baskets.
An encrypted sparse-image works great! Just gotta be choosy as to what you put in there, due to the performance hit. And don't tell your keychain to store the password -- that kindof defeats the whole point of having it encrypted! WRT data integrity... what I do is: In the late afternoon, before I leave my computer, I dismount those encrypted disk-image volume(s), and duplicate their .dmg file(s) in-place (just select 'em and hit cmd-D). That leaves me with the working version of the .dmg AND a backup. THEN when my incremental backup runs, both are copied to the clone. Yea, the whole make-a-duplicate thing is overkill. It means I end up with the working dmg plus three backup copies -- just it case. I don't like to leave those volumes mounted while the backup runs because I donno how much of it CCC can grab (if anything), but I'd betcha it would be corrupt because some of the virtual volume's file system data is cached in memory. So I figure it's best to close (dismount) it cleanly first... FWIW, - Paranoid Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
