Normally, I love Truecrypt, but there are two specific obstacles for now .
#1 It seems, in Linux, Truecrypt can't create a sparse file container volume. You're required to allocate the whole volume at creation time. Are you guys using Truecrypt in Linux, or would you recommend something else? #2 Regardless of platform, Truecrypt stores the volume in a single file. They say this provides improved security as compared to a bunch of smaller files with timestamps that update as they're modified (ala sparsebundle) . But the sparsebundle approach has one major advantage. You're able to simply run incremental backup software on your hard drive, and your encrypted volume will be correctly backed up as efficiently as possible (only backing up the various 8M chunks that were modified.) . Unfortunately backing up Truecrypt volumes can be difficult, because they're huge, and non-segmented. You've got to backup the entire volume every time. Does anybody have any suggestions to solve either of these two problems, or recommend a different product instead of TrueCrypt? Thanks.
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