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Do you only have 2-3 backups of your workstation?

I have much more backups of my workstation etc., should I now buy dozens of crypto hardware key thingies and constantly switch them around to match the backup disks?

For those who do offsite backups: Is an offsite backup possible across the Internet? Or do you have to physically drive the key to the offsite location?

When I create a new account somewhere, does that mean I have to move N backup keys out of their drawer to the workstation and register each of them on the account?

And how to even create a backup and keep it in sync?

With backup disks, it is a matter of shutting down the machine, removing one disk from the RAID1, and you have a backup (the removed disk is the backup). Or doing "dd if=..." if you don't use raid.

Is something as simple possible with those fancy crypto toys? Or is some arcane magic required to copy them?

Is this perhaps all as usual: An attempt to get more control and tracking of users, disguised as "security"?

[lrvick]

With devices that support BIP39 backups like the Ledger or Trezor, you are backing up the random seed that generates all possible future accounts deterministically.

Backup once, setup 100 accounts, lose authentication device, restore backup to new device, regain access to all 100 accounts. Easy.