Fair Backup

Backup encryption is something rarely thought about, as “Whatever can happen to my backups?”. Let’s see if it is really true.

Sure, if you backup to your own external hard disk drive, you may not fear, if you keep your drive safe (with you, at home, or in a bank cell). However, even if you keep your HDD in a car or at work, you’d rather encrypt your backups, in case your external hard disk drive (or a USB flash drive) is stolen.

Normally, just scheduling your backups is a good thing. But for how long do you need to store your backup files?

Of course, everything depends on your backup schedule and on the backup medium you use. If you backup every day, you’d rather backup daily during a week, and then only keep weekly and monthly backups (and the recent week ones, of course).