Guidance on my WDE and Backup strategy

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So far, my backup procedure has been to clone my HDD to a removable drive. I use True Image workstation with Universal Restore for this purpose. The cloned drive is then stored offsite.

I am now required to deploy whole disk encryption to enhance security. I will be using PGP for this purpose.

1. So lets say I use WDE for the HDD. When the time comes to clone the HDD, I could decrypt it, clone it and then encrypt both the original HDD and the cloned drive. Will I wind up with a cloned disk useful for recovery on new hardware (using Universal Restore)?

2. Since decrypting, cloning and encrypting will take much longer than simply cloning (as done in the past), my interim procedure will now involve either creating an encrypted bootable disk image or maybe only encrypted data files onto a removeable storage device.

I have experienced hard drive failures in the past. My data was backed up. Getting up and running afterward still took far too much time and effort, mostly to reinstall all of the software, program settings and hardware settings (as I recall). Thus my desire to maintain a cloned disk.

Is this a workable approach? Is there something I am overlooking? Is there a better way? I appreciate any comments or ideas.

Gio, 12/17/2009 - 08:52
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Acronis secure zone and PGP secure disk
hello, i used acronis true image and disk director suite and successfully cloned and backup disks many times. recently i installed pgp enterprise to secure the disk. as fate would have it i decided to increase the secure zone partition. the operating system on boot prompted for pgp password to decrypt the drive and then acronis loaded and i used the partition management option. the partition limit of secure zone was enhanced from 55 gb to 61 gb (limit being shown as 69gb). the three steps that appeared were C drive size being fixed from 55 gb to 45 gb, D drive (which was pgp secured) was shown to be going through NO change and the third step was the Secure Zone expanding from 45 GB to 51 gb or so. when all the steps were done, the system booted. as always the first prompt was PGP secure disk, i entered the password but the second prompt for Acronis halted and Displayed a fatal error and asked to press enter to attempt to boot the OS. On pressing Enter the system booted and the OS was normal EXCEPT that the D drive was being shown as Raw (i.e. needed to formatted). On inspecting the D drive with Acronis disk manager the three partitions were visible the C and Secure zone with the newly allocated disk space but the D was being shown as RAW Although the D disk size was being shown as before, i.e. 45 GB. All assets resided in the D drive. Please advise how to recover or restore the partitions.

Ven, 01/01/2010 - 08:00