QUESTION POSED ON: 06 October 2008 In my project, there is a request to provide the user with an encrypted database. How can I use EFS (Encrypting File System) to encrypt, decrypt and restore the database backup file in SQL Server 2005?
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SQL Server does not provide encryption for backups. You could, however, use third party products such as SQL Backup from Red Gate or SQL LiteSpeed from Quest to get this functionality, as well as many other useful features that these programs provide.
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