Joseph Ming <[email protected]> writes: [trimmed to recover from top-posting]
> The opposite question is also relevant I think: what extra precautions > does tahoe take to protect the user from losing their root cap? If I > understand the design correctly, without the root cap (or access to > some stored cap somewhere) the user won't be able to access any of > their data (or the portion of their data for which they don't have > caps). Yes, that's true. > Assuming I store everything in tahoe and never share my caps with > anyone else and then my harddisk where my cap was stored dies is > stolen etc., have I lost everything? Is there some other way to try to > recover my data, maybe by scouring all nodes involved in storing it > for caps that belong to me? Yes. No (or it's a bug). > Are users encouraged to save a copy of their root cap somewhere other > than their harddrive? Is there any mechanism to help the user do > something like that? It seemed obvious to me that backing up root caps was necessary, just like backing up encryption keys is necessary. But if there is a tutorial that should mention it and doesn't, I suspect a patch would be welcome. Normal backups of the disk, taken offsite, should help greatly. Also, "enscript .tahoe/private/aliases | lpr" works. At least, it prints, but I haven't tried to type it in.
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