Restore from mobile phone (maybe Chrome addon?)

[fede843]

Hello, I am new around. I am planning to adopt a password manager, and this is my first choice.
I am making the preliminary basic tests, before fully commit to it.

I was wondering in a bad escenario, where you lost the server, and you lost all your backups and offline copies, and the only thing you have is your app in the mobile phone and the Chrome browser addon. Is is possible to restore from there ? What are the options in this awful scenario?

In my testing I could achieve to get into the mobile app, export a json file. Then create a new server instance, import that json file. Next logout in the mobile, losing all the local data. Log back in and all the restored data was there.
Many server setting were gone, organization, collections, etc. I guess I have to configure all that again. But the important data (credentials) was there.
Is this the only way around ?

Is it the same achievable from the Chrome addon?

Thanks beforehand!

[dnewsholme]

Seems a weird thing to plan for. Just have a good backup strategy.

[fede843]

Not at all and sorry to completely disagree with you.
If you did not think in these kind of scenarios before jumping to a self hosted option to store your passwords, well, I don't have much more to add, besides you are doing it wrong.

[BlackDex]

This is the only way as far as i know. And I'm not sure if the extension is able to export it though.

But, best way is to have your backups stored offsite and other location in an encrypted way or something. And store those credentials somewhere else than Vaultwarden, like an actual vault or something.

[fede843]

Hi, thanks.
Yes I have disks redundancy, multiple backups online and offsite too.I just was playing and trying to figure out if this was an option.
The real issue with backups we most mortals do have (at least I do), is that we often don't have a testing stage in place. We assume they are all good, always, forever, but more than once people get a surprise when it is the real thing, and realise their backups are historically corrupt, incomplete or useless.

Apparently I could manage to do the same from the chrome plugin. Just to know this is possible in a worst possible scenario is a good thing.