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Question: How to find which and where my encryption keys are for a profile? #738
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@samuel-w: thank you for getting back to me so quickly! 😃 I found the
Thanks! And looking forward to #304 and #599. Let me know if I can help test or something. |
No, its a borg file. Vorta is just a frontend for borg, and it runs borg commands to do everything. You need two things to decrypt a repository. The password and the key. If you lose one, then it is impossible to decrypt the data. That is why backing up the keyfile and knowing your password is important. To copy a repository to a new location should just be copying it over, and setting |
Got it, thanks! Makes sense. |
Closing since it’s answered. |
I've been using Vorta for backups on my GNU/Linux system with no problems creating, mounting, and restoring from archives.
I went with default options and see that my current back up profile uses "repokey-blake2" for encryption, fine. But how do I find out where they encryption keys are so I can back them up? I'd hate to lose those keys or not being able to access them if/when I want to restore on another device.
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