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Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password by colejohnson66 on Monday September 05, 2016 @02:50PM (#12431714)
How would backing up help? If you back up the encrypted data, then your backup is still useless because you don't have your password. If you back up an unencrypted copy, that defeats the purpose of encryption.
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Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password by gruturo on Monday September 05, 2016 @02:59PM (#12431747)
Backing up the password manager data (provided you did store all passwords in there, and that you don't forget at least the master password) would _definitely_ help in this scenario.
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Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password by bArray on Monday September 05, 2016 @03:28PM (#12431860)
You could make a encrypted backup with a different password. That way if somebody compromises one drive they still have to work for the other.
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Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password by colejohnson66 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:23PM (#12437615)
But it's a backup? If you have one copy, you pretty much have the other, right? And that just adds another password you can't forget, lest you lose your data.
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