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My backup drive has completely failed, ( i.e. will not even spin up) and I have been asked to return it. Naturally it contains a full backup of my financial & personal data which for obvious reasons I don't want to hand over to anyone - can Retrospect backup files be read easily by other applications?

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Did you encrypt the backup set? Your answer determines the answer to your question, depending on how you define "easily". If the disk can be made readable again (by, for example, putting the platters in a new drive using clean room techniques), then the sectors (and files) will be readable. Is your financial data worth more than the cost of a drive?

 

We use the sledgehammer approach to "archive" old drives.

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