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Fresh-host recovery

Restore an existing installation

Recover the original CA identity, certificates, users, settings and audit history from an encrypted PKIMaster backup.

Recovery is available only before creating an administrator and only through localhost. Existing installations cannot be overwritten.

For a manual backup, enter its passphrase. For a scheduled backup, upload the private recovery key saved when automatic backups were configured.

Use a backup from a trusted source. Compare its SHA-256 with a value recorded independently of the backup server; encryption alone does not prove who created a scheduled backup.

Archive integrity, database consistency, the audit chain and encrypted keys are checked before any installation files are replaced. Maximum archive size: 128 MiB.

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