How to Back Up an Encryption Key

1. Retrieve information about the key that you want to back up.

   phys-schost# cldevicegroup key-list -v

   The following example command shows key information for the gpool-key encryption key:

   phys-schost# cldevicegroup key-list -v
   Keyname   Key
   -------   ---
   gpool-key 007781ebafcbd7fa94de683ae65f1e71293d48e5e32ba6bd2751a2e9299707d7

2. Record the encryption key information.

   You can write down the key name and the key or save this information to a file that only you can read.

   The following command examples save the key name and its associated encryption key value to a file called ~/osck that only you can read:

   phys-schost# cldevicegroup key-list -v >~/osck
   phys-schost# chmod 400 ~/osck