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okay, in this video, it is finally time to set up persistent storage on our tails device.

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this is a very important step, so be sure to follow along closely.

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and if you have any questions, of course, let me know.

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we'll hop on over to our tails instance to take a look at what configuring persistent storage might look like.

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and here on our tails install, it's very easy to 1st set up persistent storage.

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there's a checkbox right here or a radio.

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there's a button right here where we can actually create persistent storage.

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and that's really all we need to do is just select that and click start tails.

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and once tails actually boots, you now should see a new window talking about persistent storage a bit more.

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in this case, you'll notice it's saying i can't create it because we're on a usb stick or we're not on a usb stick.

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we are on a virtual machine.

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so it's important to remember that if you're on a virtual machine, it's going to have some issues.

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now, there are some potential ways around this, but when you're testing tails on a virtual machine, there's really not a need for persistent storage because you're already on a machine.

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you have storage there, there's things you can do.

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so i just wanted to make sure to showcase this.

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now what we'll actually do is we'll launch our physical computer with the usb installed and we'll take a look at that setup screen.

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so let's do that now.

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okay, and here on our actual physical laptop with the usb set up, we see a different type of persistent storage screen.

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no longer is the air showing on the bottom and we can actually click continue here to get working on our persistent storage.

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so we'll go ahead and click continue.

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it will ask for a passphrase.

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now it is incredibly important that you make this passphrase a good passphrase.

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if you want additional info on how to make good passphrases, we have a separate course on encryption and cryptography, but really, you should know the basics of creating a passphrase.

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don't make it a password, make it a passphrase.

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in this case, we'll use something really simple.

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this is just a test set up.

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so we can just say tails is the very best os.

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i think that's how i did it correctly there.

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tails is the very best os.

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there we go.

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and that's all we need to do.

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now it recommends these seven random words.

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that's also a good methodology if you would like that, but we'll just stick with what we have.

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tails is the very best os.

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and we'll create the persistent storage.

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now what it is going to do now is on the actual usb stick, it's going to make a partition.

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it's going to start up the luke's encryption.

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it's going to take some time to do those operations, but once it is ready to go, you should see the complete screen here in just a moment.

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and while this is working, it's important to note that this is why it's useful to have a usb with a little bit more memory than needed.

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if you have something like an eight gig usb, tails takes a few gigs of that, so you don't have a lot of room for your persistent storage volume.

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so if you want to be able to save more stuff or configure more items, it's suggested to get a larger usb.

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most usb these days are very cheap, 64 gig, 128 gig, you can even get terabyte usbs, i believe now.

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those would be good if you really expect to store a lot of files, folders, configuration items, etc.

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so keep that in mind when it comes to your volume size depends on the usb that you're running on.

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and another thing to note, how fast this happens also depends on how fast your usb is.

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if you're plugged into a usb 30. port with a usb 30. compatible usb, a lot of these operations, especially when it comes to formatting, are going to be a lot faster.

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so keep that in mind when you're considering usbs as well to potentially use for tails.

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and there we go.

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assuming everything worked correctly, your persistent storage will show here as unlocked.

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there's some helpful info here about how to make a backup.

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and then there's some more info here on the settings with persistent storage.

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and we'll go into those settings in the next video.

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for now, at this point, you have created your persistent storage and you are ready to start storing stuff on tails.

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if you have any questions, of course, let me know.

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otherwise, we'll see you in the next one.