Hi all,
As we just had a break in at the office, I have been looking into encrypting my external disks in order to protect the data on them in case they ever fell into the wrong hands. I have seen that some are creating disk images of the data on their drives, then when they plug in the disks, mounting the disk would require a password to access the files.
This seems like a good solution, but also slightly seems like a hack. Does anyone know if this is standard practice? Another question that may seem illogical, but how does reading data from a virtual disk differ from reading data from the actual disk? Specifically in relation to speeds, fragmentation, etc. Is the data structure as safe as it would be storing on a regular journaled disk if being stored on a spared image?
Sorry for all the questions...just a bit of scary step to take when all I want is security.
Thanks in advance for any help.
kitz
As we just had a break in at the office, I have been looking into encrypting my external disks in order to protect the data on them in case they ever fell into the wrong hands. I have seen that some are creating disk images of the data on their drives, then when they plug in the disks, mounting the disk would require a password to access the files.
This seems like a good solution, but also slightly seems like a hack. Does anyone know if this is standard practice? Another question that may seem illogical, but how does reading data from a virtual disk differ from reading data from the actual disk? Specifically in relation to speeds, fragmentation, etc. Is the data structure as safe as it would be storing on a regular journaled disk if being stored on a spared image?
Sorry for all the questions...just a bit of scary step to take when all I want is security.
Thanks in advance for any help.
kitz
