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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnb2yfWzJ2lYQw1UTm6XVZ4y8qashNagZA"
+ nickname="Daniel"
+ subject="Full restore from only a remote."
+ date="2015-02-22T12:53:30Z"
+ content="""
+Maybe I'm being stupid here--I just started playing around with git-annex. But what's the best way to backup the directory tree and anything else (e.g. encryption keys)? 
+
+For example, if I set up an S3 remote, and then lose my computer, how can I recover from the remote alone? It seems like I can't, unless I also take a snapshot of...what else?...independently. Is that correct? What's the best way to provide this kind of redundancy (against destruction of the local filesystem)? 
+"""]]