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Question about automatic backups in 1Password for Mac

dwrenaud
dwrenaud
Community Member
edited October 2015 in Mac

I'm considering 1Password and am concerned about periodic backups. I just had a bad experience with SpalshID. Fortunately they have a system with backups that happen every week and I was able to recover my passwords. I'm not happy that I spent 4 hours on this and didn't have access over the weekend.

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  • danco
    danco
    Volunteer Moderator

    Your 1PW database is completely under your control. Nothing gets stored on an outside server unless you choose (Dropbox or iCloud).

    Backup copies are automatically made on your computer when the database changes. That doesn't help if your hard drive dies, but you should be making backups of the drive anyway (Time Machine plus either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner) and these would include your 1PW database.

  • Drew_AG
    Drew_AG
    1Password Alumni

    Hi @dwrenaud,

    I hope danco's reply was helpful!

    The original title of your post was "What is .agilekeychain?" I changed the title to something that better matches what your question, but I also wanted to let you know that .agilekeychain is a sync file format that is currently used by default when you enable Dropbox or Folder sync in 1Password 4 (or higher). Although it's possible to recover your data from a .agilekeychain file if necessary, it's not considered a backup file because it is constantly changing (assuming that it's syncing with your vault).

    As danco mentioned, 1Password automatically makes backups of your data that it stores locally on the computer. You can find more information about that here: How do automatic backups work in 1Password?

    You can find information about the backup preferences in 1Password for Mac in the user guide here: Backup Preferences

    You should make sure you are backing up your Mac's hard drive, which should also include the 1Password backup files. If you don't backup your Mac, you should at least keep a copy of those 1Password backup files somewhere other than locally on your Mac, just in case something happens.

    Hopefully that answers your questions, but please let us know if you need anything else. We're always happy to help! :)

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