[Borgbackup] best practices for repo access hardcopy

[Zack Coffey]

You can print it, sure. Retyping works, but is less than ideal.

What I'd prefer, 7zip/zip it with a password. You've now got a small file
that's encrypted. Much safer, more portable and much easier to restore from.
You can email it to yourself, maybe across multiple services.
You can put it on a USB drive or a few. Leave one at work or a families
house.
Upload it on a cloud storage, Google Drive for example.


On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 9:35 AM Thomas Gries <mail at tgries.de> wrote:

> Am 05.03.22 um 15:35 schrieb Tamas Papp:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what others do to back up repository access information
> as hardcopy.
>
> I am using a borgbase remote repository. Currently I print
>
> 1. the borgmatic .yaml file and
> 2. the ssh key
>
> on paper, expecting to retype it in case a disaster happens to
> electronic copies (which I keep on a USB stick).
>
> I thought of
>
> 1. stripping the YAML comments,
>
> 2. making a tar.gz archive of the above,
>
> 3. printing it as a large QR code (with as much redundancy as allowed by
> the limits of QR).
>
> Suggestions appreciated.
>
> best,
>
> Tamas
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> https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/key.html
>
> also lists the --qr-html option
>
> There are three backup formats.
>
> The normal backup format is suitable for digital storage as a file.
> The --paper backup format is optimized for printing and typing in while
> importing, with per line checks to reduce problems with manual input.
> The --qr-html creates a printable HTML template with a QR code and a copy
> of the --paper-formatted key.
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