-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Adam Funk wrote: > What's the best way to back up my GnuPG keyrings -- just a tar.gz of the > ~/.gnupg directory? > > Or is there any advantage to producing additional files with the > "--export" and "--export-secret-keys" commands? > > (I know that the backups then need to be stored securely.) >
Not sure if there is any advantage, but ASCII-armored files are always nice :) I keep a log of what keys I import (by date, including expiration & revocation status) and date my keyring backups - just in case it gets corrupted, but I want to rebuild my keyring from some saved point. Make sure *before you do anything else* that you have a backup of your secret key *and a revocation certificate*, in case anything bad happens... - -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC6PFt/RxM5Ph0xhMRAxA9AJwPKaOFkfGaa52fTyzJ8A6SJlnjogCgoLRO +OWW6tIvDGx5ixx1FBGp0kE= =tt61 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
