Mark C. Henderson (mch@squirrel.com) wrote: : On Mar 17, 18:38, Sanwar Ali wrote: : } Subject: Backup of Encrypted Partition : } Hi : } : } Apologies if this is too much of a beginner's Q. : } : } Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape : } quickly and easily. : } : } HPACK is really slow. : } : } PKZIP and then PGP is slow. : } : } RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I : } am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake. : } : } I have about 100MB in the partition. I have a pretty out of date : } computer which is a 386 33MHz running Windows. : : : Ease of backup is one of the strengths of CFS which is a cryptographic : filesystem for various flavours of UNIX and Linux. If you have Linux installed, you can backup your dos securedrive partition by doing cat /dev/hda2 >/dev/ftape ^^^^ (or whatever your securedrive partition is) No decrypting necessary. If the partition is only 100MB then it ought to fit on a standard qic-80 tape.