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Netbook - Good Backup and Security Plan?
I've spent a lot of time getting my Eee PC (1000HD) all set up. I'm using TrueCrypt, Dropbox, and Acronis 2010 in addition to any OS provided tools. I have an external 1.5TB drive, and an external 110Gb drive in addition to my Netbook drive.
I have Windows 7 Ultimate with passwords required on boot and wake up from hibernation.
C Drive is the OS/Programs, D Drive for user data
Acronis is used for for backups, I make an image of C once a month, and backup user data/settings weekly.
Also weekly, I backup my image library and music library to an external drive. Unencrypted,though.
I set up dropbox on the D Drive, and used Truecrypt to make an encrypted drive, which I mount only when sync'ing my user data to it. It then update the online copy of the encrypted drive, which is my "offsite" backup.
I set up another encrypted drive on an external drive. Any data that I need to archive(ie get out of the way) is stored here. Its not backed up as it's too big for dropbox.
Thoughts:
I have my original Netbook drive ( 110Gb ) left over from my hard drive upgrade that I could store backup's on. It would be nice to have at least 2 copies of everything.
I haven't encrypted sensitive user data on my Netbook. I'm considering using the built-in encryption in Windows 7 Ultimate to do this as my impression it would have lower overhead than 3rd party tools. My policy is to only encrypt what needs to be encrypted, and also to not leave any sensitive data lying around unencrypted.
What do you guys think of my set up? Overkill? Not enough? My main concern is protecting data in case of hardware theft. I want to force them to give up and just wipe the media as it isn't worth their time to try and get at my data.
-Thanks in advance