On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 15:28, Nathan Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a system where that has about 1GB of Time Machine backups on an > external drive. If I turn on File Vault, what does it do to the existing Time > Machine backups? Encrypt them also? Leave them in cleartext? Will the new > Time Machine backups be done encrypted?
I can't confirm this from experience, but my understanding is that the existing and future backups won't be encrypted. When you attach a new drive and you're give the option to use it for TimeMachine, you're also given the option to encrypt the backups. All this does is turn on FileVault encryption for the TimeMachine drive / partition. You can do the same using the command line to enable encryption on your existing backup drive. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
