How to Back up your Volume

Backing up your documents, files and folders on a regular basis is critical. Backing up your TrueCrypt Volume is vital, and (fortunately) easy to do. Don't forget that your volume must be dismounted before you back it up.

Step 1. Locate your Standard Volume (in our example it is located in the My Documents folder).

Figure 18: Locating the My Volume file, using the My Documents window

Step 2. Save the file to an external memory device, like a CD, DVD or a USB memory stick.

Tip: If you have large amounts of data that you want to encrypt and archive repeatedly, why not create a new Standard Volume which is the same size as a CD or DVD? This could be used as a secure archiving technique.

Before you back up the Volume to a removable device, make sure that the device size corresponds to the size of your Volume.