recover files from encrypted home folder

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Published on 2013-11-13T03:13:28Z Indexed on 2013/11/13 3:58 UTC
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I can't seem to find the answer to my questions -- hence my posting this here.

1) I have encrypted my home folder in LinuxMint 15 Cinammon x64. If I create images of LM's partitions via fsarchiver, how do I go about selectively restoring home folders, and files from the FS images?

2) I haven't done this yet; but can I restore another users home folder into another user; both unencrypted. Is that a fairly common thing to do in Linux/ubuntu? I mean is the process fairly straightforward? What if the home folder I want to copy over to another user is encrypted?

Thx

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