# Support for automatic backup encryption (GPG?)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-automatic-backup-encryption-gpg/25124>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [February 11, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-automatic-backup-encryption-gpg/25124 "2015-02-11T11:12:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-automatic-backup-encryption-gpg/25124/7 "2019-02-07T10:09:49Z")

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This is generally handled by the operating system, so files are automatically encrypted as they are written to the disk. It’s much easier to think about this way.

Internally for our hosting we do also encrypt each backup as an extra step in the process before shipping it to Amazon S3.

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