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## gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md

      
        
          
            
              
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              April 11, 2016 00:59
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                Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    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...