From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:01:00 +0800
To: Sanwar Ali <sanwar@bclimser.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Backup of Encrypted Partition
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On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Sanwar Ali wrote:

> 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 don't think that you can avoid the speed problem.  The SecureDrive TSR
has to decrypt the data on the disk and this can be a slow procedure when
dealing with 100 megabytes.  You could speed up the backup procedure by
turning off compression.  I know that pkzip has this option, but I'm not
sure about any of the other programs you mention.

- --Mark

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