Operations

Recovery, backup, and day-to-day vault lifecycle.

This section covers what to do when things go wrong, and how to set yourself up so that less goes wrong.

• Recovery - lost device, forgotten passphrase, corrupted vault
• Forensics and partial recovery - investigate a damaged vault, salvage what is still readable, rebuild a corrupted header from a backup
• Backup strategy - what to back up, what NOT to back up, and how
• Deniable mode - vaults whose on-disk bytes are indistinguishable from random output

• Recovery What to do when you lose access to a vault.
• Backup strategy What to back up, what NOT to back up, and how often.
• Forensics and partial recovery Investigate a damaged vault, salvage what is still readable, and rebuild a corrupted header from a backup.
• Deniable mode Vaults whose on-disk bytes are indistinguishable from random output. Create, open, mount, enroll.