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Originally Posted by Brando View Post
Agreed. And even then, what happens when you backup the encrypted files - before getting a key?
Well the idea is you don't have any or at least enough hosed files that you need to worry about paying for the key.

As long as you are running incremental snapshot backups and not just a full dump and replace every time you should be able to find the last clean version of a given file.
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