I'm moving countries and have to ship my workstation by sea. What's the best way to secure my personal data in case the computer is stolen in transit? The computer is a tower chassis containing a hardware RAID array. The OS is Windows 10.
Wiping the computer and restoring from backup upon arrival is possible. However, the amount of data is truly massive and restoring from Google Drive would take a long time.
Posted Mar 21, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC
Copy everything to external HDDs and ship them individually so that at least 9/10 make it. I don't know how exactly you will move but I guess it's not possible to take the disks with you in person?
How massive is the actual personal part (= private and irreplaceable)? Encrypt that, put it on durable media like USB sticks and transport it close to your body (think of „how would I smuggle cash if I had to“).
Everything else (like my huge media collection) I‘d send sufficiently insured via a trusted logistics company that knows how to handle hard drives.
How much data are we talking here?
Secure the disk with windows integrated bit locker
I'd pull the drives and take them me, if I had to ship them they'd be encrypted (should be anyway).