Windows 10: Macrium Reflect Password/Encrypt: Yes/No?

In the 1 in a million (at least) chance that I get nailed for ransomware (with Norton and paid Malwarebytes running), I thought I was protected having images stored on an external drive. But I guess you could increase those odds and say the attack came when the drive was connected and then all the images could be corrupted.

To prevent this I could opt to use the Reflect encrypt option. Time is never a problem running the backup and although it would take a lot longer to restore I could live with it if it was a matter of having/not having the data.

How do you all handle this?

I think before I get too worked up about encrypting the backup I ought get up off my a** and finally change the passwords on the DSL modem and bridged router from their factor presets!

Mark

:)

 

New Macrium Reflect Updates


Something I found interesting:

New Feature: Automatic System Restore Macrium Software Blog

 

Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

• Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
• Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
• click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
  
  
  
• Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
• Boot up with your new HD.

 

Reflect image password protection and encryption...

I encrypt my phone and all my PCs. I also encrypt my backups.

Why? In case I lose them. Perhaps I leave them in a taxi or someone breaks into my house. Encryption means they can't get to see my address, email, bank details and the cunningly named document called "Passwords.docx" I have on my desktop.

Identity theft is a real issue and encryption should be the first step everyone takes unless they have absolutely nothing of value on their device.

For macrium I use a bitlocker encrypted volume (rather than encrypt the image itself) and have never tested the performance overhead. According to Microsoft it should be a "single digit percentage" but idk. Perhaps next time I'll get self encrypting drives but even if it took 2x as long I'd still encrypt.