Can You Password Protect USB HDD Rsync Backups?

Thank you StephenB for the quick response, you no doubt saved me several hours of trying to figure it out. Limitations are what they are, I will simply have to ensure the backup sets are kept in secure locations. Although it is well worth the risk, I can’t imagine not having offsite backups just in case of a catastrophic event. Over the years our family content has grown, would not want to lose those precious pictures and videos of the kids’ earlier years; besides, they may end up being our only proof we did take them places and do things for them. It has taken us these six years to get a little over 4TB, we were waiting until we hit our Sparc limitation of 5.4 TB before replacing, although it might be time to invest in a new ReadyNAS before then. It will be hard though, our NV+ is practically a member of the family.