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Local backup drive password question

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I'm installing ATI 2021 for the first time and intend to first use it to create a local backup of my disk on an external Samsung SSD T7 drive.

Prior to installing ATI 2021, the SSD drive installation instructions offered to add password protection (encryption).

Should I do that or let ATI 2021 handle the password security? I'm thinking that perhaps setting a password at the Samsung drive level would mean that I would have to re-enter it each time ATI tries to write to it.  Or even worse interrupt the backup.

I appreciate your input and your time.  Ron

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Ron, I guess that this is your missing topic mentioned in your other post but which has been opened in the ATI 2017 forum rather than that for 2021.

If you employ any encryption for your external backup drive, then bear in mind that you will need to be able to unlock this before Acronis can access it for either backup or recovery operations.

If attempting recovery using the Acronis rescue media, then unlocking the encryption can be a further challenge as the media doesn't have any features for this by default, so would have to be added!

ATI can encrypt your backup images on your non-encrypted drive using a password of the strength of your choosing but when doing so, make sure you know what that password is as no-one else can unlock it for you!  You only need to provide the password when doing other operations with the encrypted backup, i.e. changing options, etc - ATI remembers it for doing further backups.

Thank you Steve.  Perfect answer.  Sorry that I put this in the wrong forum.  Could you please move it to the correct one.  Tell the boss to give you a bonus!  :)

Ron, only the Acronis moderator can move topics to other forum pages - us mere users are only that!

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Ron Paquet wrote:

Thank you Steve.  Perfect answer.  Sorry that I put this in the wrong forum.  Could you please move it to the correct one.  Tell the boss to give you a bonus!  :)

Moved the topic to Acronis True Image 2021 forum