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'''Filesystem-level encryption''', often called file or folder encryption, is a form of [[disk encryption]] where individual files or directories are [[encryption|encrypted]] by the [[file system]] itself. This is in contrast to [[full disk encryption]] where the entire partition or disk, in which the file system resides, is encrypted.
The advantages of filesystem-level encryption include:
* flexible file-based [[key management]], so that each file can be and usually is encrypted with a separate encryption key
* individual management of encrypted files e.g. incremental backups of the individual changed files even in encrypted form, rather than backup of the entire encrypted volume{{clarify|how it differs from a _non-crypto_ incremental-backup, please... and the purpose (e.g. importance of backing up to another encrypted physical-disk so data remains secure but a lost token, lost disk, etc doesn't make the data irretrievable?)|date=January 2011}}
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