http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/secure-your-private-word-2007-documents/ Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:44:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/secure-your-private-word-2007-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-63212 jd2066 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:11:29 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/secure-your-private-word-2007-documents/#comment-63212 @Scott: It depends on what program you use to encrypt the files. For things like the Microsoft Office encryption this article shows there would be no problem as on the hard drive, the file is always stored as encrypted and the back up program could back up and restore the bits of the file just fine. For things like EFS (Encrypting File System) that is built in Windows then there could be problems due to the file encrypted/decrypted status being able to change on the fly when the file is accessed. If a backup program runs under a different user account then Windows will say access denied to the program by default. Should the backup be able to just back up the encrypted bits of EFS Encrypted files then for a restore you also need to make sure to restore a back up copy of the EFS Certificates that EFS needs to decrypt the file. @Scott: It depends on what program you use to encrypt the files.
For things like the Microsoft Office encryption this article shows there would be no problem as on the hard drive, the file is always stored as encrypted and the back up program could back up and restore the bits of the file just fine. For things like EFS (Encrypting File System) that is built in Windows then there could be problems due to the file encrypted/decrypted status being able to change on the fly when the file is accessed. If a backup program runs under a different user account then Windows will say access denied to the program by default. Should the backup be able to just back up the encrypted bits of EFS Encrypted files then for a restore you also need to make sure to restore a back up copy of the EFS Certificates that EFS needs to decrypt the file.

]]> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/secure-your-private-word-2007-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-62958 Scott Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:58:32 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/secure-your-private-word-2007-documents/#comment-62958 Question: Does encryption affect backup programs? I've had trouble restoring encrypted files before. Question: Does encryption affect backup programs? I’ve had trouble restoring encrypted files before.

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