I realize you're probably not running on MacOS X, but I feel I should mention that it supports encrypted sparsebundles and I use them a lot with no issues.
On Sunday, January 3, 2010, Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> It's not impossible to break the volume into smaller volumes, but that >> doesn't gain anything. > > Maybe I'm not understanding your problem completely. I thought one of the > complaints you had was that if you changed some small thing in the > TrueCrypt container, you would then have to backup the whole file again. > If you break it into smaller logical pieces (passwords in one, something > else in another), then only when you change something in that piece would > you have to back up the file again. > > Obviously, yes, if something changes in all of your TrueCrypt volumes, > you're still left with having to back them all up. > >> Also, a long time ago, I did use a bunch of smaller volumes, and found it >> annoying because if I wanted to use more than one, I'd have to mount more >> than once. Soon learned it was far more convenient to put the various >> encrypted volumes all into a single larger volume. > > You could script the mounting and create a larger filesystem out of the > various volumes, but yes, that's more work. > > I'm sure there are some creative ways to deal with not having the sparse > file functionality you want, but none of them sound ideal for your needs. > > I'm curious if you've had any responses as to alternatives to TrueCrypt > that do more of what you want. > > -Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Dan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
