[ale] gpg keyring backup / restore

[Greg Freemyer]

Jeremy,

My tar file will restore and recreates the .gnupg directory as it was
a week ago.

The problem is that kgpg does not seem to recognize the files and in
turn shows me an empty set of keys.  ie. Somehow it seems to know to
ignore these restored keyrings.

I'm hoping there is a way to tell kgpg to use the various keyrings I backed up.

Greg

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jeremy T.
Bouse<jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
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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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