chrisroos

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...

bowsersenior

require 'rubygems'
require 'yaml'

# A demonstration of YAML anchors, references and handling of nested values
# For more info, see: 
#   http://atechie.net/2009/07/merging-hashes-in-yaml-conf-files/

stooges = YAML::load( File.read('stooges.yml') )
# =>  {
#             "default" => {