backup startegy for keyrings

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> How does GPG backup its keyrings? Are the keyrings backed up before
> a key is added or deleted? If somehow a keyring get corrupted, what
> can we do to recover our keys?

The pubring is backed up automatically.  Look in your ~/.gnupg
directory for "pubring.gpg~", which is the backup for "pubring.gpg".

David