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by teo_zero 607 days ago
> store the password vault in dropbox

No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

I do something similar on the mobile phone (the reasining is, if there's no network, there's nothing I need to login to) but I also keep a local copy on my laptop (that I sometimes operate with limited connectivity). Without any automatic syncing, one of the two copies will be stale.
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anilakar 607 days ago
Back in the day we tried to sync KeePass vaults at work and ended up with a conflict about once a week, which is way too often. Not sure if other password managers have solved this.
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Dylan16807 606 days ago
> No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

Normal dropbox behavior keeps a copy on every computer.

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teo_zero 606 days ago
> Normal dropbox behavior

Ah, you mean by using some app or daemon. I excluded that possibility because on at least one of my laptops I'm not allowed to install anything, so for me "normal" behavior is using Dropbox as a container for files to download when needed.

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Dylan16807 605 days ago
Well if you do that then you get plenty of copies; just restrain your delete key finger a bit. It does risk some staleness, but only rarely.

And maybe you could write a small shell script to keep that particular file up to date?

Also the one program I've used that opens keepass files directly from dropbox servers keeps a local copy.

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