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.