You’d need a good backup somewhere. But that’s the same for bitwarden cloud. You cannot just assume it will never have issues
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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t trust my setup for something like this.
My server and NAS go down in a fire, and I’m not gonna have the key I need to get the backup so I can restore my password manager lol
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No, my problem is that I need my password manager to access my backup, and I need my backup to get my password manager.
philpo@feddit.org 1 month ago
That is a bad setup then. Not an issue of the software or hardware.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Thanks for your useful and actionable feedback that clearly explains the problem. So trustworthy /s
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Probably worth storing the key in another place as well, like keepass on your phone or just print it out on paper and store it.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t say I particularly trust even Bitwarden’s servers. I export Bitwarden passwords to a spreadsheet once a month and rsync it along with SSH keys to a USB key. Takes a couple minutes.
abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The nice thing about Bitwarden is that all vaults are locally saved on every device where you access it. So even if your NAS, server and whole house burn in fire you still have all the keys on your phone.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s good, if at least one surviving synced device survives then you still have access. Still a big “if” in a catastrophe, but a much better proposition.
What is the data retention policy for the local vaults?
ammonium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unless your phone also burns down together with the house, which is not unlikely
abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The point: .
You
ammonium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean? If my house burns down the chance all my devices went up in flames is high. This is one of the reasons I’m not self hosting Bitwarden.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is true for a single person - but in a multiple person household that would mean that everyone needs to carry a copy of their with them. So this mechanism is no replacement for a solid backup of the server somewhere else…
abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are missing the point; the original comment was about not having the keys to restore the (I assume) encrypted backups. With Bitwarden you can still access the vault even if the server is offline/lost. It’s not a replacement for a backup strategy.
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No? Everyone who uses the bitwarden app or browser extention has a local copy of the database that is used for read operations. You can’t disable this so everyone who uses bitwarden can still use their passwords even if the server dies.