| GroundStateGecko: > I explicitly asked about "backup VeraCrypt encrypted volumes (not vault stored as a file)", and they replied "The backup of any VeraCrypt-encrypted files is no longer supported." bzChristopher (From Backblaze): > Christopher from the Backblaze team here ->
Backing up the mounted volume is no longer supported. However, you can still back up the unmounted image file without issue, provided the relevant file type exclusion has been removed. s_i_m_s: > This is viable for small containers but I can't see how this is in any way viable for fully encrypted drives.
Like sure I could convert the full drive to a container but that makes the backup and restore process untenable.
On the backup side a 1% full 4TB drive is now 4TB to backup and it's no longer possible to deduplicate between drives.
On the restore side to get one 5MB file off that 4TB drive i'd then have to download the entire 4TB container. GroundStateGecko: > That doesn't work for encrypted partitions. Even for the image file, it is unreasonable to upload the whole image file every time one small portion of it gets updated. bzChristopher (From Backblaze): > The Backblaze client can deduplicate files and the unchanged parts of large (over 100 MB) files. |