i use filevault on osx. just remember that timemachine & filevault don't play along well. you will have to log out of your account to backup your home directory

i use filevault on osx. just remember that timemachine & filevault don't play along well. you will have to log out of your account to backup your home directory, defeating the whole timemachine purpose. i'd recommend crashplan.com in this case.