By default it is backed up to iCloud through your keychain... This is why I enabled encryption with the fdesetup command manually so the GUI can't "have a bug"

By default it is backed up to iCloud through your keychain... This is why I enabled encryption with the fdesetup command manually so the GUI can't "have a bug" that backs it up to iCloud/keychain anyway. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/fdesetup.8.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin... edit: you want to ensure you don't use the -keychain option, and then you want to write down the recovery key it prints out and store that somewhere safe.