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.

Employ incremental backup to backup only changed files to the same folder.

What is incremental backup?

Incremental backup is a type of backup, when first a total backup is conducted, with consequential backups performed to the same folder. All but the first backups can backup only the changed files. (Do not confuse with differential backup

Apply differential backup to save only the files you modified to a separate folder.

What is differential backup?

A differential backup is a backup type, when after the first total backup, the changed files are backed up to different folders. This allows having numerous file versions for recovery purposes.

Employ backup encryption to secure your files during and after backups.

Why encrypt backup files?

The only reason to use backup files encryption is to prevent anyone but you from accessing your files, stored in the backup destination (the backup medium). If the backup storage medium can be accessible by others and it has sensible information stored on it, backup encryption is the best way to achieve security becides placing the backup medium in another location.

Using backup files compression is the only way to reduce the disk space, required for your backups. As nowadays, the amounts for backups are increasing drastically, backup files compression is as useful as never before.