In both cases, there is an additional (usually small) risk with
binary backups: An attacker can see how many sectors and which
ones have been changed since the backup. To prevent this, use a
- filesystem level backup methid that encrypts the whole backup in
+ filesystem level backup method that encrypts the whole backup in
one go, e.g. as described above with tar and GnuPG.
My personal advice is to use one USB disk (low value data) or