Thank you for your suggestions, Dianne and JN. Scott, I would like to encrypt only the files I'm backing up to the external hard drive, the rest of the latter would remain unencrypted. Robert From: Scott Murphy [mailto:scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 11:22 AM To: Robert Venczel Cc: linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org Subject: Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive Did you mean individual file encryption or entire drive? On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Robert Venczel <robert [ at ] wawtechnologies [ dot ] com<mailto:robert [ at ] wawtechnologies [ dot ] com>> wrote: Good morning, I would like to encrypt my backup files stored on an external drive. Which software would you suggest I should use for it? Thank you. Robert