Time Machine was evil to me. It did not properly prompt me how to deal with the file vault situation. I am forever drag and drop and carbonite. Note: Carbonite does not store pictures and videos in the big format you may have them in so if you want your FULL DATA of your photos (bigger files with more detail) then you need to drag and drop them to an external hard drive and let carbonite deal with all the smaller files. Carbonite does not turn your file vault data into encrypted data that you may NEVER have back again and it is LOST FOREVER!!! Carbonite saves it (even while file vault is running) as perfect just the way you see it except as I said before larger files such as photos and videos.

I hope you all stay away from Time Machine if you have precious data and forget when you had file vault on or off. There are no prompters like a window popping up saying "Please before doing this time machine back up turn off your file vault, log out of your computer and log back in and THEN run the time machine". That would be a very simple window to have pop up don't you think?