Microsoft EFS

Hi

Few questions on EFS.

1) XP in domain environment. Can I copy the encypted EFS folder
to my portable USB drive? The drive is NTFS format. I know I can't if
the external drive is FAT/FAT32. What about NTFS?

2)If I have encrypted EFS folder, and I backup to tape and store for
one year.
When I restore the folder from tape a year later Can I still read -
decrypt the folder ?
The password I am using now is definitely different for my password a
year ago... so how?
Since the EFS encrypted folder was archived to tape no longer on my
machine, then it will not get updated (I understand for EFS the key to
decrypt is tied to my password) when I change my password.

Any MS expert around to help??

Thanks.

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