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Hi Jason!
You will have to activate the Pogoplug on your work network, but it should be portable, as your My.Pogoplug account should stay the same, and your Pogoplug does have a unique identifier that is used to verify it regardless of which network you're on.
As far as TrueCrypt, I am personally not familiar with that program, but I'm guessing that Pogoplug will not be able to read those files, as I'm sure TrueCrypt is using proprietary encryption to protect the files.
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I haven't received my plug yet but was wondering if I setup my PogoPlug on my home LAN and then move the PogoPlug to my work network will it still work? I guess is the PogoPlug mobile enough to move from one location to another and still function correctly.
Also, will PogoPlug work with Truecrypt? I have a couple 500GB External HDD that I have mounted up with TrueCrypt running under openSUSE 11.1 and Ubuntu 9.04. Will the PogoPlug recognize these drives or is there a TrueCrypt option in the works?
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June 1, 2009 10:34 AM
June 1, 2009 11:17 AM
actually once you have registered the plug on your home network, you shouldn't need to do any additional registration. it should just work on any network.
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June 1, 2009 11:27 AM
That's great, Keith - thanks for letting us know. I had thought previously that it needed to be activated through a browser on the network it was attached to, but this is even easier! (I haven't yet taken my Pogo to another network, but will be doing so in the near future, so this is good to know.)
June 3, 2009 9:58 PM
I played around a little with TrueCrypt and PogoPlug tonight. While you can store and access a True Crypt file hosted volume on a PogoPlug drive, you can not encrypt a partition on a PogoPlug drive.
June 4, 2009 4:32 AM
updated: June 4, 2009 4:34 AM
Jimmy said: I played around a little with TrueCrypt and PogoPlug tonight. While you can store and access a True Crypt file hosted volume on a PogoPlug drive, you can not encrypt a partition on a PogoPlug drive.
That is good news. So, you already had a TrueCrypted external drive and you were able to store and retireve additional files to it? I have a 250GB drive that I have TrueCrypt encrypt and just want to make sure that PogoPlug will recognize the data on it. I should also be able to verify and post my results as I received my shipping email yesterday. Yeah! So I should have my plug in a couple days.
Just another question I thought about. If I have a PogoPlug in one location and another PogoPlug in a different location, different state, is it possible to rsync data from one drive from one Pogo to another drive on the other Pogo? I am thinking offsite replication. My data is safe but if God forbide my house burns down if I can sync one drive that is connected to my PogoPlug here at my house to another PogoPlug, my work, my parents house, etc then my data is really safe.
June 4, 2009 8:33 AM
updated: June 4, 2009 8:34 AM
Jason said: That is good news. So, you already had a TrueCrypted external drive and you were able to store and retireve additional files to it? I have a 250GB drive that I have TrueCrypt encrypt and just want to make sure that PogoPlug will recognize the data on it. I should also be able to verify and post my results as I received my shipping email yesterday. Yeah! So I should have my plug in a couple days.
Not exactly. There are two ways (that I am aware of) to use True Crypt. You can encrypt an entire partition or drive. Or you can create an encrypted file that TrueCrypt will decrypt and mount as virtual drive. I was able to do the later of the two sucsessfully on a PogoPlug drive.
I tried to encrypt my PogoPlug drive and the TrueCrypt software could not see it as a physical drive. I did not take and exisiting fully encryopted drive and connected it to PogoPlug, I would suspect that would not work. But I'll see what happens tonight.
June 4, 2009 6:00 PM
I tried it, and as suspected, PogoPlug cant read a TrueCrypt encrypted drive. But you can put the contents of your encrypted drive in a TrueCrypt file, then put the file on a PogoPlug FAT32/NTFS drive and use TrueCrypt to mount just the file.
June 9, 2009 7:23 AM
Peter Redmer said: That's great, Keith - thanks for letting us know. I had thought previously that it needed to be activated through a browser on the network it was attached to, but this is even easier! (I haven't yet taken my Pogo to another network, but will be doing so in the near future, so this is good to know.)
Well, I had setup my Pogoplug on my home network and all was well. I transported my plug to work hooked everything up and nada. I get the red light indicating that the Pogoplug is offline.
Anyone else able to take their plug to another location and it work? I am not sold that this is possible.
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