From bbfd454edce3b13d5f8018ba5e6d49c018248859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:04:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comment --- ..._1_c2f7542ac9a4c423c5ae06c16d42a24f._comment | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Future_proofing___47___disaster_recovery_with_an_encrypted_special_remote/comment_1_c2f7542ac9a4c423c5ae06c16d42a24f._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/Future_proofing___47___disaster_recovery_with_an_encrypted_special_remote/comment_1_c2f7542ac9a4c423c5ae06c16d42a24f._comment b/doc/forum/Future_proofing___47___disaster_recovery_with_an_encrypted_special_remote/comment_1_c2f7542ac9a4c423c5ae06c16d42a24f._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b8c9d33c2a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Future_proofing___47___disaster_recovery_with_an_encrypted_special_remote/comment_1_c2f7542ac9a4c423c5ae06c16d42a24f._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-12-11T14:42:32Z" + content=""" +That's what's "special" about special remotes vs regular git remotes: They +only store the content of annexed files and not the git repository. Back up +the git repository separately (and your gpg key if it's being used, and the +credentials if you didn't use embedcreds=yes) + +To use your backup, you can make a clone of the backed up git repository and +use `git annex enableremote` to enable it to use the special remote. + +See [[design/encryption]] for details of how the encryption is implemented. +I've seen people follow that and manually use the data from the git repo to +decrypt files, but I don't have a pointer to an example at the moment. +"""]] -- 2.30.2