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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
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.
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…
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.
Unless your phone also burns down together with the house, which is not unlikely
The point: .
You
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?
You'd need a good backup somewhere. But that's the same for bitwarden cloud. You cannot just assume it will never have issues
No, my problem is that I need my password manager to access my backup, and I need my backup to get my password manager.
That is a bad setup then. Not an issue of the software or hardware.
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.