Need Recommendations for a Commerical Product that'll Encrypt & Password Protect Backups

[Guest Mike]

Need Recommendations for a Commerical Product that'll Encrypt & Password Protect Backups

 

HI, we need a commerical product back up program eg, Symantec, PCTools or

whatever, that's a good back up program that'll 128bit encrypt and password

protect daily backups of an Access database. Daily backups are around 330MB

and weekly back ups are about one gigabyte.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

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Mike wrote:

 

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[Guest VanguardLH]

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Re: Need Recommendations for a Commerical Product that'll Encrypt & Password Protect Backups

 

"Mike" wrote ...

> HI, we need a commerical product back up program eg, Symantec,

> PCTools or whatever, that's a good back up program that'll 128bit

> encrypt and password protect daily backups of an Access database.

> Daily backups are around 330MB and weekly back ups are about one

> gigabyte.

 

 

And since when has PC Tools (the company, not the ancient utility that

Symantec bought and buried but which didn't have a backup program,

either) had any backup program? Obviously you haven't even bothered

to do your own research and are naming companies that you've heard of

but don't have a clue as to what products they actually have. Show me

at http://www.pctools.com where they list a backup program.

 

Symantec (via Veritas that they acquired) has an enterprise-level

backup program called NetBackup. Are you asking about a corporate or

enterprise-level backup program? It is an excellent corporate backup

program but far beyond the needs of just backing up an Access

database.

 

Ever heard of Novastor? They've been making backup software for eons,

like NovaBackup. Stompsoft (now Migo Software) rebadges it under the

"PC Backup" product name. If you don't run Windows Vista (you never

mention WHICH operating system and version so we have to guess it is

some version of Windows based on your undetailed post) then you don't

need version 8 and 7.5 should do very nicely. I got it for $4 in a

Stompsoft bundle labeled HP Data Security Suite (PC Backup is good,

Recover Lost Data is okay, but Digital Vault is crap and I use Heidi's

Eraser rather than Digital File Shredder); see

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2kal8y. The seller was unresponsive to

e-mail inquiries but they did ship fast (after shipping on the 3rd day

after auction close).

 

Don't bother trying to use Acronis TrueImage Home for logical file

backups. It doesn't support volume shadow copying (very important for

database backups) and they will hang the backup on a file read error

(rather than skipping and reporting in the log) which means scheduled

backups won't complete without user interaction. They promise that

their twice more expensive Workstation version supports volume shadow

copying (don't know what they do when a file read error occurs,

however).

 

If compression is not an issue, why not just use the NT Backup program

already included in Windows (NT-based versions)? It supports volume

shadow copying, skips on file read errors (to report in the log), and

can save to a disk file (you never mention what target media of where

to save the backups). It won't support spanning of backup files

except to tape (so you can't span multiple CD/DVD discs but it doesn't

support that media type, anyway). The backup will only be compressed

if the hardware itself supports compression, like for tape drives. It

has no software compression so the backup is as large as the original

files (but without the loss due to slack space from unused sectors in

a cluster). NT Backup is a crippled version of Veritas' old Backup

Exec Desktop product which they sold off to Stompsoft who sold it off

to Ahead (Nero) and Stompsoft switched to a rebadged copy of

NovaBackup.

 

For a "personal" backup product, not sure you'll find anything better

than PC Backup (aka NovaBackup). Unlike the corporate backup

products, it doesn't include cataloging (so you can search by file

instead of digging through backups, specify which media is off-site,

and expire old media/backups) but then the "personal" products don't

have the advanced features of enterprise-level backup products. If

all you are doing is saving some Access database that only you are

using or even if it is shared then NT Backup is already included in

NT-based versions of Windows (but no compression unless you save to

tape).

 

Neither PC Backup or NT Backup have an option to encrypt the backup

file with a password. So what? That doesn't stop you from using EFS

or TrueCrypt. If you use EFS, be sure to export the EFS certificate

and lock it up, to designate an alternate recovery agent, or both.

You are expected to protect your own backup files either physically

(locking up the discs or the room where they are retained) or

logically (using file/volume encryption). If you want more than what

"personal" backup programs provide then start looking at server or

enterprise level backup products (but if this were a company that was

using/sharing Access databases then they should already have a backup

solution in place). PC Backup lets you run commands before/after the

backup, so you could tell it to run an encryption program on the

backup file after the backup completes. Acronis TrueImage Home has an

option to password protect the backup files but I found it unreliable

for logical file backups (but it still works okay for many users). Of

course, if you use EFS, TrueCrypt, BestCrypt, or some other

file/volume encryption product under which you save the Access

database then you don't need to encrypt your backup files - because it

is the encrypted file that gets saved in the non-encrypted backup

file.

 

You don't specify a budget and you don't specify the environment under

which the backup product will be used. It seems very odd that you do

not already have a backup mechanism in place. Is none of your other

data important to you or your company? If you don't do backups, you

have deemed all your data as unimportant or recreateable.

[Guest VanguardLH]

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> For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set

> down

> in words with even more distinctness than that with which I

> conceived

> it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy

> which

> are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely

 

<snip - exceeds 4 lines, all of them drivel>

[Guest Rhonda Lea Kirk]

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VanguardLH wrote:

> "Gazwad" <argos.staffed.by.twats@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:b9jfkx$sh5$1@spindly-loaves.net...

> <snip - nothing useful>

>> --

>> For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set

>> down

>> in words with even more distinctness than that with which I

>> conceived

>> it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy

>> which

>> are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely

>

> <snip - exceeds 4 lines, all of them drivel>

 

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[Guest Gazwad]

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VanguardLH <VanguardLH@mail.invalid>, the enfeebled-bummer and tragic

kisser who likes perverted nick-nacking with bulls, and whose partner is

a lingerie-lass with a dilapidated hoo-hoo, wrote in

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>

> <snip - exceeds 4 lines, all of them drivel>

 

 

Piffle

 

 

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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down

in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived

it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which

are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely

impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas

how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the

bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points

of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of

dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,

is but a dream within a dream.

[Guest VanguardLH]

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"Gazwad" wrote ...

> VanguardLH wrote :

>> <snip - exceeds 4 lines, all of them drivel>

> Piffle

Self-analysis correct.