Need tips on how to backup my keys

[John W. Moore III]

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Subject: Need tips on how to backup my keys
From: Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com>
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:38:33 AM


> When one day my hardisk go bad and I can not access my keys, theose
> files I encrypted for myself would never be opened for me.  I don't
> want that, then I believe I need to make a copy of my keys ( the whole
> of ~/.gnugp directory, right? ).  But where should I keep the copy?
> It gets chance exposuring to public if I put in on a USB disk.  I like
> to hear what the method you used.

Speaking just for Myself; I have a 64MB SD card that I use for weekly
back-ups of My pubring & secring + trust.db and which I keep in a
secure, fireproof location "just in case" I ever need to recreate My GPG
installation.  I do not need to back-up the entire GnuPG directory
because it can be easily recreated from existing Web based Applications.
 The 3 items listed above are the only things I cannot restore without
back-ups.

HTH

JOHN 8-)
Timestamp: Thursday 24 Jan 2008, 11:46  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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