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I managed to break our test environment trying to update some internal certificates that were close to expiration. I attempted to restore a NSX Manager backup and discovered that the backup passphrase that I had saved was not correct. I could not for the life of me find any documentation on how one might recover a lost NSX Manager backup passphrase. Luckily for me, I was able to log in to the broken manager and not yet deleted it. I did some digging and thanks to this blog post by Tony Williamson, I was able to figure out that I could get the current backup configuration with the root user on the NSX Manager with this command: /opt/vmware/bin/corfu_tool_runner.py -o showTable -n nsx -t BackupConfig. Also note that certain special characters in the backup passphrase might appear as escaped UTF characters… Read More »Recover NSX Manager Backup Passphrase