On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 09/08/2011 04:53:45 PM, Claudio Moretti wrote: > > well, you were lucky you lost only unimportant data :) there were a > > lot of people, first of all: me, who did not backup their header on > > the main system.. And they (read: me) lost access to their home > > partition because the only place where the passphrase had been stored > > was.. the damaged root partition.. > > And that's how i learned i should back up headers (lol) > > As I'm sure has been said by others: it's a lot more important > to back up your _data_ than to backup the luks header. Indeed. > To paraphrase R. Crumb: "It is better to have data > in times of no luks header than it is to have a luks header > in times of no data." ;-)==) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
