Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:39 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> And no, I do not toss my backups at work in my shirt: > > Figuratively speaking, of course - the 2.5" drives are just easier for > any use where the capacity makes sense. > Um, we just went from the 1TB drives to 3TB drives, so I only need four. >> the offline backups, >> fully encrypted disks, go in the fire safe in the locked server room. >> Some of the systems they're backing up have HIPAA and PII data. > > Do you encrypt at the disk level (hardware support?), the filesystem, > or just per file with tar-type files? And has the technique ever > caused data loss? As I said, the disks are fully encrypted, using LUKS. Can't do hardware support - these are just ordinary drives. Never had data loss, unless the drive started failing. mark