Remember to back up your developer private key!

Duncan C · 09-22-2011, 08:45 AM

I just posted a new thread to the tutorials section reminding people to back up the private key they use to create their developer certificate, and quoting Apple's instructions on how to do it.

If you don't back up your private key, and you have a hard drive crash, you will have to revoke your developer certificate and create a new one, and then generate all new provisioning profiles.

Here's a link to the tutorial:

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/ip...tml#post376602

crashmonkey · 09-22-2011, 03:25 PM

Isn't a standard data backup into Time Machine, for example, an adequate solution?

I recently had to reinstall my OS and reverted my user data to the last backup and was fine. I suppose a separate hard copy on CD is the safest.

RLScott · 09-22-2011, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Duncan C

I just posted a new thread to the tutorials section reminding people to back up the private key they use to create their developer certificate, and quoting Apple's instructions on how to do it.

If you don't back up your private key, and you have a hard drive crash, you will have to revoke your developer certificate and create a new one, and then generate all new provisioning profiles...

Is that so bad? What if you only have one or two provisioning profiles and you are not in the middle of managing dozens of beta testers, wouldn't it just be a half-hour nuisance?

mistergreen2011 · 09-22-2011, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RLScott

Is that so bad? What if you only have one or two provisioning profiles and you are not in the middle of managing dozens of beta testers, wouldn't it just be a half-hour nuisance?

Agree. It's not that hard to creat a new key.

harrytheshark · 09-22-2011, 07:34 PM

Backing up takes 30 seconds and could save you 30 minutes hassle, so why not?

mistergreen2011 · 09-23-2011, 10:34 AM

Don't provisions run out after a few months anyway? You'd have to make new ones anyway.

It takes me less than 10 minutes to do the whole key/provision thing.

QuantumDoja · 09-23-2011, 04:02 PM

Thanks for this Duncan, this is going to save me a headache when moving to a new machine....when I can afford it.

Thanks again!

Chris