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Azure Site Recovery support and/or alternatives for VMs with encrypted drives

Azure Recovery docs indicate that encrypted drives are not supported,we currently utilize another hosting solution that uses vormetric to encrypt our data drives, is there any supported path that allows us to use site recovery in Azure without…
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How to encrypt a Windows Server hard-drive remotely?

I have a couple of dedicated servers running Windows 2012 on the other side of the country. My only access to these servers are through RDP. For compliance reasons, I will need to encrypt their hard-drives. Is there a way to do that without…
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Encrypting volumes of a mongo/elasticsearch cluster

I have mongodb and elasticsearch cluster. I want to encrypt the volumes associated with all the instances running in the cluster. If I encrypt only one volume among the cluster than the cluster will be working normally? Or do I need to encrypt all…
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Bitlocker decryption trouble

today I started the procedure to access a bitlocker encypted data storage hard disk. At first I unlocked it and then I turned off bitlocker. The turning off took some time, but it ended without any error. The result is that the hard drive seems…
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Firmware RAID5 and SED on Linux

I have three HDD's (Seagate ST4000NM0053) in a RAID5 set-up using firmware RAID (RSTe 4.0, Intel® C612 chipset) on Debian 8.4. They are SED, so I would like to set the ATA password. Unfortunately, my motherboard's…
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Shrink non-bootable LUKS LVM

I'm importing a VMWare OVA whose second disk uses LUKS and configured to use 1TB of space, although its VMDK is only 30GB. I want to shrink this down. I am following the instructions here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resizing_LVM-on-LUKS),…
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Remove McAfee branding from Windows login

McAfee Enterprise plasters its brand over everything on the PC. Everything. The latest is that since installing disk encryption, the McAfee logo is placed over the user account picture on the Windows 7 login screen. Is there a way to remove this?
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how do I LUKS encrypt a drive that already has data?

On a CentOS 7 server, I would like to LUKS encrypt the entire hard drive, including a 50GB partition that has already received yum install and a few other updates, but nothing else. But this tutorial says that typing cryptsetup -y -v luksFormat…
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Encrypted Ubuntu 14.04 File / LAMP Server

I have a question regarding the safest method to encrypt a file and/or a LAMP server using Ubuntu 14.04. When manually partitioning the disk, I chose the following: /boot - 256 MB / - 51.4 GB (sda2_crypt) swap - 2 GB (sda3_crypt) The…
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Unable to perform enable-bitlocker and lock-bitlocker successively

I am trying to enable bitlocker on windows server 2012 R2 data volume using following command: Enable-BitLocker -MountPoint $volume -Password ($password | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force) -PasswordProtector After this I am trying to lock…
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What are the Security Implications of not fully overwriting a fresh LUKS disk prior to use

I recently read this nice Howto tutorial about doing backups with whole disk encryption using LUKS. Surprisingly for me this tutorial contains as the first part of step #3 a command to overwrite the new disk partition with encrypted binary…
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Encrypt ubuntu 14.04 home directory with services accessing them without login

I have few services which gets started as soon as server boots up. Now i would like to encrypt my home directory. Will services work properly if i do so? Code for those services is present in the home directory and accesses some json files, cron…
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Preeseding a debian stable install with a complex partitioning scheme - missing physical volume

My personal systems run on: An open /boot partition separately random key encrypted /tmp and swap partitions and a password encrypted btrfs lvm volume holding everything else. My latest project is to use preseeding of the debian installer and try…
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Automation and full-disk encryption

I know that the title seems to be completely contradictory, but allow me to elaborate. Reading Bruce Schneier's recent article on data deletion got me thinking that every server should have full-disk encryption, if only for the fact that knowing rm…
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Encrypting SVN Store with ecryptfs

I previously had TrueCrypt setup to automount my SVN repos on the Subversion server at boot with an automated network script that used a keyfile on a protected share to mount the volume. Now that TrueCrypt is no more, I've since moved on to using…
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