How to forbid others opening my backup *.bkf file? How to set a password for opening my backup *.bkf

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Thanks!
Will coping to the NW server decrypt the encrypted BKF file?

Hi

Yes, either that, or the file will become corrupted. The Netware file system is
not based on NTFS, so standard Windows file encryption is incompatible with it.

What about putting the file into a password protected ZIP file?

(also note that if you delete a file from a Netware volume that you want no one
to get hold of, you should purge the folder after the delete operation, because
a Netware file system doesn't really delete the file unless you do a purge as
well).

 

[Dmitriy Kopnichev]

How to purge a folder on a Netware volume?

Hi

Yes, either that, or the file will become corrupted. The Netware file system is
not based on NTFS, so standard Windows file encryption is incompatible with it.

What about putting the file into a password protected ZIP file?

(also note that if you delete a file from a Netware volume that you want no one
to get hold of, you should purge the folder after the delete operation, because
a Netware file system doesn't really delete the file unless you do a purge as
well).



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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

How to purge a folder on a Netware volume?

Hi

At least for Netware 4/5 (I can't speak for NW 6, I have never used it):


Right click on the folder you want to purge and select "Purge Files..."

If you can't find "Purge Files..." in the folder context menu, from a command
prompt, run

purge /?


If you get "'purge' is not recognized as an internal or external command...",
you may need to map

\\nw_file_server_name\sys\public to get to purge.exe

 

[Dmitriy Kopnichev]

Thanks!

Hi

At least for Netware 4/5 (I can't speak for NW 6, I have never used it):


Right click on the folder you want to purge and select "Purge Files..."

If you can't find "Purge Files..." in the folder context menu, from a command
prompt, run

purge /?


If you get "'purge' is not recognized as an internal or external command...",
you may need to map

\\nw_file_server_name\sys\public to get to purge.exe

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

 

[Alexander Grigoriev]

If the admin is Recovery Agent, he can decrypt the file with the recovery
key. In the domain environment (and if you're logged into a domain), your
master encryption key and recovery key are stored on the domain controller
and your files can be recovered by the domain Recovery Agent.

 

[Dmitriy Kopnichev]

Thanks!

Yes. This is why second stage of Backup is required. It will save the
encrypted data of the first BKF file.