Hi to all, I see in the setting menu a new entry: "usb encryption"Did I miss it before or it is a new feature? How does it works?

Marc_V wrote: If you do get your USB Encrypted using this feature then from that point on, you can access your data from your ReadyNAS system only when the encryption key is available. Connecting it to a PC or Mac it will be not recognized and will prompt you to reformat the drive. This really needs a KB article (and should be in the user manual). FWIW, I think that for most people this is a useless feature. Not much point in having a backup that can't be read without a working ReadyNAS. There should be some off-line way of mounting the USB volume - at least from a linux system.

OK. I understand that your hand is being forced. But keeping a backup offline means it's not going to be kept up to date as well. What are you doing, "sneeker net" with a USB drive? Being locally online does not mean the NAS has to be available via the Internet. You can have a separate router (or just a switch or direct wiring if you use static IPs) for the second port of your main NAS that connects to the backup and has no internet access. Of course, VLANs can do much the same thing, but many IT security people know security but very little about IT or don't think paractically. Like arcane pasword requirements that pretty much force you to write them down -- is that really more secure?

profeta64 wrote: It could be that several cases, where I would have the need to get access to the data from a Windows/MAC computer. i.e. my nas is damaged, I need now access to the data I agree, that's an obvious need. If it can't be done natively, there should at least be a VM that can be used to access the data.

Sandshark wrote: Digging a bit more, I note that LUKS is installed on a ReadyNAS, so i rather expect it's being used for the encryption. Yes, I believe it is. But there are a couple of ways that can be set up - it would be helpful if Netgear published a procedure for manually mounting an encrypted volume.

I think i found the reply by myself:If you format a USB stick, you can enable the encryption :) Cool! But then, how to read it from a PC?

New ReadyOS 6.10.3 and usb encryption

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profeta64
Luminary
Apr 06, 2020
I think i found the reply by myself:
If you format a USB stick, you can enable the encryption :)

Cool!

But then, how to read it from a PC?
- HughWills
  Aspirant
  May 18, 2020
  I have the same question - a long-awaited feature for many people but the user documentation hasn't been updated to explain how to use this?
  
  We've been paying out for external backup drives in encryption caddies with keypad which work great, but this feature might mean we can just use plain USB drives in future. It depends how they are utilised and read from other locations. Please post instructions Netgear?
  
  Thanks.
  - Marc_V
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    May 19, 2020
    HughWills profeta64
    
    It is a new feature on the ReadyNAS system where you can get your USB external devices encrypted for data inside it to be secured.
    
    If you do get your USB Encrypted using this feature then from that point on, you can access your data from your ReadyNAS system only when the encryption key is available. Connecting it to a PC or Mac it will be not recognized and will prompt you to reformat the drive.
    
    This feature would be best for users who needs to backup their NAS data and get it secured and to be used for recovery or backtracking and also to protect it in case of theft or other malicious activities.
    
    Using it however on other systems is not possible you might be able to mount it on linux. This might be a good Idea to post it on the Ideas Exchange board.
    
    HTH

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