Plan : Make 2 copies- 1 on External HDD (4 TB)- 1 online on Google Drive, Mega or somethingI just want to protect and backup my stuff.Not sure if I should go with VeraCrypt or 7zip. Any help?
>>106969612LUKs is all you need
Three backups onTwo different kinds of media withOne of them being off-site
>>106969662I'm your average person, so OS is W11 right now...>>106969793Sure but Veracrypt or 7zip?
Is there anything more simple than veracrypt? What if I just want to scramble with a pw files on a flash drive?
>>106969612Use Clonezilla to do a full disk backup. It gives you the option to encrypt the backup data.It's always good to have full disk backups in case you break your OS or something, then you can get back up and running with minimal downtime. Also, I'm kind of confused about what you mean by your question.Are you looking to encrypt files on your main drive, or just the backups? I would recommend full disk encryption either way, as the OS can save caches and metadata about your "encrypted" files that makes them not so encrypted. Full disk encryption is safer
>>106969920Also, if you do use Clonezilla to create an encrypted backup disk image, you can upload that entire encrypted disk image file to your Google Drive, if you have the space for it
>>106969920>>106969934>Are you looking to encrypt files on your main drive, or just the backups?Just the backups. Thanks for your answer anon, I'll check Clonezilla.
>>106969920What kind of caches and metadata do OSes save?
Not op;Is 7zip enough if I just want to create an encrypted backup of a folder?And for a full drive/partition is Veracrypt the best solution to move away from Bitlocker?
>>106969842you can use luks via wsl
what's the difference between clonezilla and veracrypt?
>>106969662>just use LUKS for uploading files to the cloudretard>>106969612VeraCrypt is far superior to 7zip for this purpose
>>106970882>for a full drive/partition is Veracrypt the best solution to move away from Bitlocker?The built-in option is the only safe choice on Windows for full disk encryption, anything else is playing with fire. On linux you have a lot more choices
>>106969920>It's always good to have full disk backupsit's also a waste imo, you could do without the OS especially if it's a disk hog like Windows.I think sorting folders by tiers of importance and assigning 1 backup for less important stuff and more backups for the essentials is a good strat especially if you're paying for cloud stuff.Also never rely on cloud stuff, especially google.
>>106971595This but be careful not to use a TPM, and make sure to have a long pin code. The TPM can be considered compromised.
I used 7zip for this until recently, which worked fine. Veracrypt/luks would probably more awkward since you have to mess around with partitions.I stopped using 7z because recently it decided symbolic links are "dangerous" and it refuses to extract them. Nowadays I make a tar.xz instead and pass that through some openssl command to encrypt it.
>>106971660bro just set up gocryptfs or something
How long does it take to encrypt a 14TB 3.5' HDD?
>>106969612for syncing (like google drive) unencrypted local folders to encrypted cloud folders, i'd say rclone with crypt. and for encrypted incremental backups to a cloud service or external drive, restic or borg.
>>106971660>Veracrypt/luks would probably more awkward since you have to mess around with partitionsIncorrectVeracrypt is lets you store a volume as a file.
>>106969612don't listen to the retards who think they know better just because they discovered Linux yesterday and tell you to use LUKS / Cryptsetup VeraCrypt is user friendly, audited, efficient and works on macOS / Windows / Linux Just create a VeraCrypt CONTAINER and store your precious files in it. Then upload / transfer / backup that container anywhere you want.
