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Part of the “Upgraded Linux Backup” series.

After obtaining (and assembling) my new backup hardware my first order of business was to get the external hard drives formatted and set up with drive encryption. In Ubuntu, the easiest way to encrypt a whole drive is using LUKS – it is easily readable by most Linux computers and can even be set up on a Windows PC, if absolutely necessary. This post will walk through the (remarkably simple) process of setting up encryption and formatting for most any USB flash or hard drive

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After taking a couple weeks to upgrade my home network backup system I feel I’ve learned some lessons that some other folks might benefit from. So many lessons, in fact, that one blog post seems inadequate to contain them all. With that in mind, I’m going to be authoring a series on all the steps along the way.

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