I was joking a little bit above about sending the files every night. But, I do have two what I think would be good suggestions.

1. Off the subject a little. But for those that backup the II with their .enc backup, maybe before you go home do a quick manual backup with the II options off. I don't know how big everyone's would be, but my non II backup takes around two minutes. Even if it took ten, it may be good, to have a backup that could be restored to another computer in minutes (forgetting all of the above) and the II one could be restored later or copy and pasted.

2. Given that one of many issues that is key here would be that you wouldn't be able to restore quickly if you came to the office and found your main computer on fire. You could go ahead and do a pre-restore computer. Choose the next best computer you would use to be your temporary "main computer." Do a full install there. Obtain a license key and install it so it is a valid computer. Then remove the .xml file so there is no way to browse to it or turn off the SQL service. Or cripple it in a number of different ways as far as its being mistakenly used as the main computer. Then, if I am understanding all this correctly, you could restore there quickly. Unless the .enc files simply don't work at all without being converted. May save you the 24 hour activation key step. It's hard for me to get my head around all this.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine