Apple – Backup encryption takes forever

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July 27, 2021, 06:59 AM

Pipe Smoker

Apple – Backup encryption takes forever

A few days ago I bought a new LaCie 2 TB USB drive that I bought for Time Machine backups of my MacBook. When I set up the drive I enabled encryption.

The backups take much less time to finish now (backup speed throttling is disabled on my Mac) Happy with that! But after the backup is complete, the encryption process begins, and that takes FOR-EV-ER!

I want to disable encryption on my new disk. Does anyone know how I could do that? All of the sensitive files on my Mac are encrypted anyway.

July 27, 2021, 10:49 AM

Rey HRH

I don't know about Time Machine but I use Acronis. If I want to remove the encryption, I just have to delete the backup profile which deletes the backup files and start with a new backup.

One way around that I use for local drive back ups is I use Rohos Disk Encryption. I creates an encrypted volume in the drive that doesn't even show up so no one knows its there. I unlock the encrypted drive volume and do unencrypted backups to it. When I unplug the drive, the encrypted volume goes away. With encrypted backup files, people can see you do have encrypted files. With the Rohos, no one can easily see there's a hidden volume since the drive letter doesn't show up.

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