[ale] gpg keyring backup / restore

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have a tar backup of my .gnupg directory.
> 
> Not sure how, but that directory seems to have become corrupt and gpg
> is not showing any keys.
> 
> I hoped (assumed) I could just restore the tar file and all would be good.
> 
> Seems not to be true.
> 
> Is there a work around?  In particular, I did not export my private
> key and back it up as an ascii file, so ...
> 
> Thanks
> Greg

	I'm afraid that if your existing .gnupg directory contents are corrupt
and the tarball you created is unable to restore it sounds like you're
GPG key is lost to the big bit bucket in the sky and you'll have to
generate a new key. There's no way to regenerate the private key which
is why it's so important to make a backup.

I've been told that I'm a little bit anal about my GPG key security. You
can read my GPG key policy (http://undergrid.net/legal/gpg) if you want
to decide for yourself.
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