09-21-2018
Make sure you have the secret key stored securely and you are able to recover that by another method, i.e. not from the tape you just encrypted it on to.
Don't laugh, but I've been on a recovery test where we had to connect back to the live servers to get the key. Not great seeing as we were pretending that we'd had an incident meaning all our live servers were dead.
backup is one thing, but making sure you can restore is quite another - and rather useful to prove.
Robin
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
virecover
VIRECOVER(8) BSD System Manager's Manual VIRECOVER(8)
NAME
virecover -- report recovered vi edit sessions
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/virecover
DESCRIPTION
The virecover utility sends emails to users who have vi(1) recovery files.
This email gives the name of the file that was saved for recovery and instructions for recovering most, if not all, of the changes to the
file. This is done by using the -r option with vi(1). See the -r option in vi(1) for details.
If the backup files have the execute bit set or are zero length, then they have not been modified, so virecover deletes them to clean up.
virecover also removes recovery files that are corrupted, zero length, or do not have a corresponding backup file.
virecover is normally run automatically at boot time using /etc/rc.d/virecover.
FILES
/var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.* vi(1) recovery files
/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.* vi(1) editor backup files
SEE ALSO
vi(1), rc.conf(5)
HISTORY
This script, previously known as recover.script, is from nvi and was added to NetBSD in 1996. It was renamed in 2001.
AUTHORS
This man page was written by Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>.
BSD
October 9, 2006 BSD