Shirt Pocket Discussions  
    Home netTunes launchTunes SuperDuper! Buy Now Support Discussions About Shirt Pocket    

Go Back   Shirt Pocket Discussions > SuperDuper! > General

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 07-06-2011, 01:35 PM
bdwilson bdwilson is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 15
SD! with Lion and FileVault 2

With the upcoming release of Lion, I'm wondering how/if SuperDuper! will support FileVault 2 (seeing as how it is full disk encryption). I can't find any information regarding restoring a FileVault 2 encrypted drive (I'm assuming you'll have to boot off a Lion DVD/USB drive to unlock the drive?). I'm wondering if (since SuperDuper! runs while a user is logged in), that any duplication made would be unencrypted (unless backed up to encrypted sparsebundle, of course). Disk Utility shows my disk as "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)". Any info on this would be great before I turn this on for my everyday MBP's.

Thanks,
Brian

Last edited by bdwilson; 07-06-2011 at 01:41 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 07-06-2011, 04:32 PM
dnanian's Avatar
dnanian dnanian is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Weston, MA
Posts: 14,923
Send a message via AIM to dnanian
This is one of the reasons our Lion support is "initial". We don't know yet. But you'd have to encrypt the backup and use "Smart Update" to get an encrypted result...
__________________
--Dave Nanian
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 07-20-2011, 08:09 AM
Kampernaut Kampernaut is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 8
Any update on this?

Lion supposed to be released today and I was considering tinkering with FileVault 2. Won't use it if SuperDuper! doesn't work though.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 07-20-2011, 09:02 AM
dnanian's Avatar
dnanian dnanian is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Weston, MA
Posts: 14,923
Send a message via AIM to dnanian
Same answer at present. We just haven't had time to do thorough testing with it. It should work...
__________________
--Dave Nanian
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 07-20-2011, 01:11 PM
bdwilson bdwilson is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 15
Should work meaning it's just copying the un-encrypted files to another disk/sparsebundle? So if one was to restore, the drive would be un-encrypted and the user would have to re-enable FileVault 2?

I know this is new, just wondering what you meant by "it should work".
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 07-20-2011, 01:14 PM
dnanian's Avatar
dnanian dnanian is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Weston, MA
Posts: 14,923
Send a message via AIM to dnanian
Encryption is a properly of the underlying drive structure. It's supposed to be totally transparent to us. So, if the drive is encrypted and we copy to it, the result will be encrypted. Similarly, if the source is encrypted and the destination is not, the backup won't be encrypted.
__________________
--Dave Nanian
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 07-21-2011, 07:51 PM
jordantbro jordantbro is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Colorado
Posts: 5
Enabling FileVault 2 creates a second "Recovery HD" partition, that I believe stores the encryption keys (and the login screen that is shown at boot).

I'm interested to hear what others suggest for backing up a FileVault'd system. Do I need to backup the Recovery HD in addition to my encrypted system partition?

I just finished my first pre-FileVault SD clone. Now I'm off to enable FV.
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 07-21-2011, 08:08 PM
dnanian's Avatar
dnanian dnanian is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Weston, MA
Posts: 14,923
Send a message via AIM to dnanian
We don't back up (and don't see) the recovery partition...
__________________
--Dave Nanian
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:53 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.