Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

• clients

  184 8,336 10.0 TypeScript

  Bitwarden client applications (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli)

  

My experience is that 1P has a lot more polish and consideration for the user (err, I mean before the "8" debacle). I cannot recall a single time I have lost an autogenerated password, whereas with BW it happened about 50% of the time. Filling up my vault with hundreds of unnecessary password captures is better than losing a single one, because they don't know how important any one password is in order to gauge how "oops, sorrreeee, our bad" affects the user

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/1620 (open since Feb 2021)

Aside from that, 1P has a ton more item types, which if one thinks about a password manager as a key-value store, maybe that's not interesting, but for me it's been really great having passport details in a specific spot, without having to invent my own taxonomy for squeezing passport details into key-value pairs

Speaking of taxonomy, BW's lack of tagging is a dealbreaker for me. Why in the world do I have to pick just one "folder" for an item to live in: it can be "work" *and* "aws" *and* "testing" allowing me to see all work, all aws, all testing items grouped together

I do hate the new 1P api-only approach, but I'm not going to jump ship just yet because the competition is not yet better for my needs

• vaultwarden

  489 33,195 8.8 Rust

  Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

You should move to vaultwarden and do regular offsite backups with one of the projects listed at the bottom here: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Backing-up-y...

This will backup your entire database, including attachments, users, etc.

• InfluxDB

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• pass-import

  403 772 8.4 Python

  A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

Also: https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

Not that performance or file size would matter in this case, BUT what using SQLite would allow is to use a single format for persisting all aspects of the password database, with immediate, programmatic, random access to all fields, including attachments.

But I also agree, that for this specific use-case, even SQLite is a bit of an overkill probably.

Finally, there is always https://www.passwordstore.org/ :)

• OnePIF

  1 14 10.0 Roff

  KeePass 2.x plugin to import 1Password Interchange Format (1pif) files.

https://github.com/juanii/OnePIF/blob/0.5.2/OnePIF/Records/I... and https://github.com/polettix/App-OnePif/blob/0.002/lib/App/On... shows that 1pif does export attachments, confirmed by my trying an export locally with a copy of 1P7 for Mac I had handy

This situation seems to contradict my previous assertion that AgileBits does a good job of documenting their file formats since I was unable to find the 1pif spec on their site

• App-OnePif

  1 1 10.0 Perl

  Read 1Password Interchange Format exports

https://github.com/juanii/OnePIF/blob/0.5.2/OnePIF/Records/I... and https://github.com/polettix/App-OnePif/blob/0.002/lib/App/On... shows that 1pif does export attachments, confirmed by my trying an export locally with a copy of 1P7 for Mac I had handy

This situation seems to contradict my previous assertion that AgileBits does a good job of documenting their file formats since I was unable to find the 1pif spec on their site

• lastpass-cli

  10 2,857 7.4 C

  LastPass command line interface tool

  

Their CLI seems to support showing attachments: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli/blob/8767b5e53192ad...

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