Re: Password protected BAK Files

From: Steve Thompson (SteveThompson_at_nomail.please)
Date: 12/31/03


Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:32:22 -0500


"Tuoc" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D9549303-3521-4C75-ABFB-685820FC140D@microsoft.com...

> Can anyone help me? I would like to put a password on BAK files everytime
my backup jobs run. So that when I restore a db from one of these BAK files,
I need to provide the password.
>

If you are looking to secure your BAK files, consider using EFS (Encrypted
File System) for the folder that you dump your BAK files. Even if you could
make this work, file level passwords would not be of any value.

Steve



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