bayyas

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...

bayyas

#!/bin/bash

# Change .deb control file and repackage
# credits Loevborg http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636724&p=3925729#post3925729

if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 debfile"
  exit 1
fi