01-13-2009, 03:34 PM
On the subject of security, what do you guys do to safeguard your external hard drives? I have one in a bank safe deposit box, one off site and two on site, daily/weekly and monthly-ish, rotated dates. The real question is what if a drive is stolen? Access to data on an external drive is not prevented by setting permissions, hence my practice of backing up to encrypted sparse images - multiple machines on the same partition, easy to restore for booting. Easy to move/copy yet very secure. BTW, confidential data is always encrypted (passwordwallet). I don't use Address Book except for basic info. I may be paranoid but I even have gone to the extent of moving Mail and Mail Downloads from ~/Library to an encrypted .dmg with symbolic links back to ~/Library. I always use secure virtual memory and have wake from sleep password active. Yes, paranoid but no worries when I'm away.