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Will turning on Fileault mess up Time Machine

Joan Sax All Messages By This Member #2679 vI keep asking this question and haven’t seen an answer. I had an error message from Time Machine about not being able to make copies because my Time Machine backup drive was not encrypted. I forget the exact error message. I turned off FileVault as someone suggested (it took more than a day) and then reformatted my TM backup drive. I asked whether or not I should turn Filevault back on (as my version of Quicken suggested) and if I did, would I be back at square one with an error message that my TM backup drive is not encrypted. Does anyone know the answer to this question? Joan
Paul All Messages By This Member #2680 开云体育 HI I am pretty sure that you need to encrypt the backup drive for File Vault Here is an article with more information for you: MacTech Services -- ?Supporting the Greater Los Angeles? Macintosh?Community since 1988. ? ? ? ? ? ?626-449-5529 toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Joan Sax via Groups.Io <jsax@...> wrote: vI keep asking this question and haven’t seen an answer. I had an error message from Time Machine about not being able to make copies because my Time Machine backup drive was not encrypted. I forget the exact error message. I turned off FileVault as someone suggested (it took more than a day) and then reformatted my TM backup drive. I asked whether or not I should turn Filevault back on (as my version of Quicken suggested) and if I did, would I be back at square one with an error message that my TM backup drive is not encrypted. Does anyone know the answer to this question? Joan
Bob Beckham All Messages By This Member #2681 I have no answer for you. I’ve quit using TM years ago in favor of CCC backups. Best Wishes from Bob Beckham FCC Radiotelephone Lic P1-6S-2422 Sent from my iPhone 10r toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mar 9, 2020, at 4:25 PM, Joan Sax via Groups.Io <jsax@...> wrote: would I be back at square one with an error message that my TM backup drive is not encrypted. Does anyone know the answer to this question?
Jim Saklad All Messages By This Member #2682 Joan Sax wrote: would I be back at square one with an error message that my TM backup drive is?not encrypted. Does anyone know the answer to this question? Bob Beckham wrote: I have no answer for you. I’ve quit using TM years ago in favor of CCC backups.? I’ve been making hourly Time Machine backups AND weekly or biweekly clone (SuperDuper) backups for several years. They complement each other nicely. I have never felt a need for Filevault encryption for my main drive, let alone any others. If I did encrypt my main drive (on my laptop) – because I had critical information on it and I traveled around a lot with it – I would STILL not encrypt my backups, for fear of getting myself in a situation in which I could not access my drive OR my backups. Different backup methods are better for different situations. Bootable clones are ideal for the situation of “my main drive just died.” Time Machine is ideal for “I just deleted my Documents folder accidentally … and emptied the Trash.” A safe can protect a backup from theft. Off-site backups won't be destroyed in a fire. I haven't worked out a solution yet for “Asteroid strike.” Or for “Global Thermonuclear War”... --? Jim Saklad jimdoc@...
Otto Nikolaus All Messages By This Member #2683 I thought I was the only one who's done that! I have read so many horror stories over the years of TM without warning refusing to run a backup and the backups becoming?inaccessible, with a fresh start being the only option, losing everything (unless, of course, you keep alternating TM backups).? Many people think?of CCC as only a cloning app. In fact, you can schedule backups of as much, or little, of your drive as you like, on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, whatever, cycles, and the Safety Net effectively gives you?versioned backups too. Otto toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 02:16, Bob Beckham via Groups.Io <rbeckhm=[email protected]> wrote: I have no answer for you. I’ve quit using TM years ago in favor of CCC backups.
Daniel Settles All Messages By This Member #2684 Howdy. Do you need to encrypt your Time Machine backups? Yes, you can. TM will backup FileVault encrypted drives. If you do not need to encrypt, I suggest not doing it. It adds another level of complexity and should something go wrong makes it harder to recovery data. Otto has some good comments. I use TM to backup my boot drive and and external 3 TB HDD with my Documents, Movies, Library, and Pictures. I use the astonishingly good, convenient, and easy to do CarbonCopyCloner backup feature for 9 other external HDD. None of my backups are encrypted. Do you know how to make a password protected Disk Image File? It might be a good idea to do this with your backups first and then turn FileVault on for encryption. You can use Disk Utility to make Disk Image Files and an option is to assign a password. Of course, you would have to re-do this from time-to-time. Denver Dan On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:25:44 -0400, Joan Sax via Groups.Io wrote: vI keep asking this question and haven’t seen an answer. I had an error message from Time Machine about not being able to make copies because my Time Machine backup drive was not encrypted. I forget the exact error message. I turned off FileVault as someone suggested (it took more than a day) and then reformatted my TM backup drive. I asked whether or not I should turn Filevault back on (as my version of Quicken suggested) and if I did, would I be back at square one with an error message that my TM backup drive is not encrypted. Does anyone know the answer to this question? Joan [\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|][\|] iSent from iDan's GyazMail on my MacPro 2019
Joan Sax All Messages By This Member #2687 Thanks, Jim, I will take your advice and not turn on FileValult either for my iMac hard drive or my backup drives. I do have SuperDuper for a clone backup. Joan Jim Skclad wrote I have never felt a need for Filevault encryption for my main drive, let alone any others. If I did encrypt my main drive (on my laptop) – because I had critical information on it and I traveled around a lot with it – I would STILL not encrypt my backups, for fear of getting myself in a situation in which I could not access my drive OR my backups.

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