Mackintire
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So I figured this out a long time ago and some of you may find it useful.
If you take a cheap nas like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165483
You can load up a dekstop PC with truecrypt and create a encrypted volume on the linux based NAS that takes up all the space on the unit.
Using the truecrypt native features you can then mount that encypted volume on a desktop PC as a local storage volume. For Ex. (E drive
This will allow you to use backup software that requires a local drive (acronis) or something like backblaze or Crashplan for offsite backup without using iSCSI.
Expect to take a slight performance hit of about 2% for the encryption overhead. Performance is really limited to native SMB performance of the NAS used.
Note: this does not act like normal mapped drive. The volume is presented to the OS like a local volume.
If you take a cheap nas like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165483
You can load up a dekstop PC with truecrypt and create a encrypted volume on the linux based NAS that takes up all the space on the unit.
Using the truecrypt native features you can then mount that encypted volume on a desktop PC as a local storage volume. For Ex. (E drive
This will allow you to use backup software that requires a local drive (acronis) or something like backblaze or Crashplan for offsite backup without using iSCSI.
Expect to take a slight performance hit of about 2% for the encryption overhead. Performance is really limited to native SMB performance of the NAS used.
Note: this does not act like normal mapped drive. The volume is presented to the OS like a local volume.
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