So like a doofus, ive never really done encryption on any of my PCs/drives. With the way stuff is going, now I want all of it encrypted. The issue is I have so much data from over the years and everything ive read says it deletes everything when you encrypt.
For me it would mostly be my desktop and my nas.
Is it really a matter of, I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs to copy everything over to, encrypt, copy it all back? What’s the best (Linux) software for a mass copy task like that to be sure it works correctly?
Don’t use a system you don’t understand.
There is no difference between deleting a file and encrypting it and losing the key.
Don’t start encrypting your shit if you don’t have a functional, operational, tested backup system in place.
Read the three sentences above again and make sure you understand them. Ask questions if you do not. It’s okay if you do not understand.
No that makes perfect sense. I know losing the key means by by
I do have a backup. The issue is I need a backup for that one if I were to encrypt this.