Ntbackup and EFS - unencrypt before backup???

From: Jerry Baker (nospam_at_nodomain.invalid)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:50:26 -0700

I have a nightly backup operation that backs up my email. The directory
containing my email is encrypted via EFS. When ntbackup runs, it stores
the files in the BKF archive in their encrypted format. This makes it
impossible to compress the backup (encrypted data is essentially random
data which doesn't compress). Is there some way to make ntbackup store
the files unencrypted other than having to unencrypt, backup, then
re-encrypt a gigabyte of data every night?

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