[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 24""" date="2015-10-19T17:32:16Z" content=""" @craig, all of git-annex's information about a special remote is stored in the git-annex branch in git, so any clone of the git repository is sufficient to back that up. You can run `git annex enableremote` in an clone to enable an existing special remote. The only catch is that, if you have chosen to initremote a special remote using a gpg key, with `keyid=whatever`, you'll of course also need that gpg key to to use it. If you run `git annex info $myremote` it will tell you amoung other things, any gpg keys that are used by that remote. """]]