[nocoder]

What would be a good way to backup the passwords stored in Bitwarden? I am worried that someday suddenly bitwarden could stop working and I will lose access to all the stored passwords? Should I have a physical copy of all the passwords stored in a vault at home?

[Happily2020]

The simplest way of doing this would be to export your bitwarden vault in plaintext (as a json or csv) and then store it as a password protected zip file.

This should be easy to encrypt and decrypt on all operating systems, and would make it easy to move your vault to a new password manager.

[fy20]

If you have some sort of home server, I'd recommend hosting vaultwarden (an open-source implementation of the BitWarden server). It works fine with the official apps. Their enterprise model requires a standard API, so it's not going to break anytime soon.

[beAbU]

This does not take the need for separate backups way though. In fact, I'd argue it makes it even more important to maintain a 3-2-1 backup of your vault.

Running vaultwarden on a home server is one small disaster away from losing everything. Homelabs typically don't enjoy the same level of protections and redundancies compared to a commercial DC.

[Saris]

Use the export feature and just save the file somewhere safe, mine is in a Cryptomator vault. You could also import to Keepass and then delete the file.

[nichos]

Export your BE vault and import it into key pass. Then store that file somewhere safe.

[palata]

I personally went (a year ago) to pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/.

It just creates a git repository that I can back up wherever I want.

[s2l]

Desktop: keepass variants.

Android: Keepass2 android.

Use syncthing to stay in sync.

[cja]

How to use Syncthing on Android now that the app has gone?

[TheFreim]

There is a fork: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

[s2l]

For this type of data, preference could be toward fully open source stack (i.e. fdroid, etc).

Another thing I recommend is to enable versioning on syncthing for the database. This way accidental changes can be reverted easily.

[jannes]

You can do JSON exports within the apps. But careful, all your passwords are unencrypted in the JSON.

[hexfish]

Frankly I would worry about that with any third party that holds my data. There are a few Bitwarden exporters on Github that also account for attachments (something the builtin exporter doesn't for some reason).

[aae42]

BW synchronizes all your data on each client... if you logged in before, and your server goes down, you can still log in to a recent client, it just won't be able to update

you could recover from that

[Saris]

No way to export from the client though, so you would have to recover the server unless you previously made backups with the export feature.