Backing-Up w/ FileVault enabled

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by dnanian

While you *can* back up a FileVault account from "inside" it, the resulting backup has the hidden FileVault volume "mounted", so logging into that image in a recover situation can be weird.

Yeah, I'm having a tough time wrapping my brain around this scenario...

So, the FileVault .sparseimage would be 'open' on the backup all of the time?

If you log out and into a non-FV account, the image is closed and "put away", and the backup is a lot "cleaner".

Would Fast User Switching over to the non-FV account be sufficient, or should it be a regular log out/log in?

Thanks for your help with this,
Timothy