For years I have been very careful to maintain up to date backups. I have made Plug & Play clones of my hard drive to just backing up important files and folders to USB 3.0 encrypted portable hard drives. The drives the backup data resides on are always located more or less adjacent to the computer that is being backed up. Obviously, a catastrophic event like a fire will destroy everything.
I want to start using a cloud (remote) type backup service but for obvious reasons I have zero trust in the security of any internet based service. Therefore, any data I backup to the cloud must must be encrypted on my computer before it is uploaded and only decrypted after it is downloaded. Only I would have the encryption key.
Carbonite provides a service that does provide for 128 bit encryption and decryption on my machine so nothing traverses the internet un-encoded. Unfortunately, Carbonite also told me that the encryption key must reside in a local file stored either on my computer or on a storage device such as a USB memory device. A strong password I have memorized and simply typed in when needed will not work. That 100% negates the concept of preventing a local catastrophic event from destroying my data because without the file containing the key my data is no longer accessible from their server.
I need a remote location to store my backups but the files and folders must be encrypted/decrypted on my machine so anything on any internet based server or traveling through the internet is encoded. I also need the key to be in the form of a strong password that can be typed in from memory anytime I need to upload or download data and not required to be stored in the form of a file either on my computer or a local memory device. Any suggestions please?
I want to start using a cloud (remote) type backup service but for obvious reasons I have zero trust in the security of any internet based service. Therefore, any data I backup to the cloud must must be encrypted on my computer before it is uploaded and only decrypted after it is downloaded. Only I would have the encryption key.
Carbonite provides a service that does provide for 128 bit encryption and decryption on my machine so nothing traverses the internet un-encoded. Unfortunately, Carbonite also told me that the encryption key must reside in a local file stored either on my computer or on a storage device such as a USB memory device. A strong password I have memorized and simply typed in when needed will not work. That 100% negates the concept of preventing a local catastrophic event from destroying my data because without the file containing the key my data is no longer accessible from their server.
I need a remote location to store my backups but the files and folders must be encrypted/decrypted on my machine so anything on any internet based server or traveling through the internet is encoded. I also need the key to be in the form of a strong password that can be typed in from memory anytime I need to upload or download data and not required to be stored in the form of a file either on my computer or a local memory device. Any suggestions please?
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