The problem

Now and then I get contacted by borg users who have lost the borg key, asking for help with regaining access to their archived data.

Of course there is no way to do that if the key is really lost - that would be a severe security issue if that was possible.

So the only option is to try to recover the deleted key and that is usually rather complicated and often not successful:

• usage of "undelete" tools for local filesystems, hoping the storage device block(s) with the key have not yet been overwritten or discarded.

• sometimes users directly back up onto FUSE-mounted cloud storage. if they don't have file versioning activated there, guess it is impossible to recover a file from a bucket. otoh, having versioning active might be a bad idea concerning space usage and related costs, because borg compact moves around a lot of data.

So, users should be motivated to have a borg key backup.

borg init tells them every time to do that.

Does vorta also tell them? Vorta should also actively help them doing that.

Requested Solution

Add a UI wrapping borg key export (and maybe also borg key import later).

Guess the best way would be to use the option creating that html page with the QR code and the key hexdump and then invoke the default browser showing that html file.