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Backup Strategies

We've all heard about the importance of having backups and we all believe that they are not empty words of advice. However, a lot of people add that to their lists of things that need to do one day and procrastinate for far too long on this. Sadly, those who are most diligent about backups are those that have previously suffered loss as a result of a catastrophic hard drive failure and had no backups. 1Password has a built in backup method but by default it uses the same hard drive as the main data file. This protects you against file loss but not against a drive failure. You can change this in the 1Password preferences.

However, today I want to talk about a more complete and whole disk backup stategy.

Backing Up your 1Passwd Data

What would do if you lost all your logins and passwords tomorrow? You could spend the next 3 days clicking on "forgot username/password" buttons as your inbox fills up with password recovery mails but that wouldn't be much fun. Usually we do not think about things like this until something happens.

Unfortunately, that is like buying tornado insurance after your house has already been hit by one. Everyone recommends full backups and it is universally accepted that this is a good thing; ideally we recommend the same. However, we know that very few people actually implement and execute a full fledged backup strategy. If you decide not to backup your entire hard drive regularly, we recommend you at least backup your 1Passwd data on a regular basis.

Today, I am going to show you the how to backup all of your 1Passwd information so that it may be recovered in the event of a catastrophe.