Understanding BitLocker and Backup Encryption

✳️ It's important to understand when backups of encrypted drives are encrypted and when they're not. ✳️ BitLocker Backup Basics Most software operates on files as they appear to you. Therefore, backups from a BitLocker-encrypted drive typically store files in an unencrypted form. Exceptions include sector-by-sector backups and backups made without signing in, both of which can only back up as encrypted. Make sure your backups are accessible, and then choose secure storage or program-specific encryption to protect them. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/179503 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ Sector by Sector Backups ▶ https://youtu.be/6QA1qb9UzXc Chapters 0:00 With BitLocker Are My Backups Encrypted? 1:15 How disks arrange files 3:15 Bitlocker encryption 4:15 Backing up data on an encrypted drive 6:45 Backups from rescue media 7:50 Dealing with encrypted backups 8:35 Figuring out which one you have 9:15 What about backup-program encryption? ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #bitlocker #encrypted