I don’t self host and pay Bitwarden €12 per year

So your backup strategy is praying that Bitwarden never loses your data? That’s your superior solution? LOOOOOOL

Let explain the point for you: the way Bitwarden works is that you have your full vault saved offline on every device where you’ve logged in. It’s not just showing you what’s currently on the server, it all works even if the server goes offline.

Now, obviously you still need backups, but that’s valid for any kind of storage on the planet. If all the places where you’ve stored your data burns, there’s no recovery. Unless you have a magical solution, I don’t see how Bitwarden is “worse” than any other alternative. Would you like to explain what’s your current strategy?

If you don’t do off-site backups there’s no recovery from your house burning down. Which self hosted alternative will survive without backups from all your devices burning? You are completely missing the point.

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You are missing the point; the original comment was about not having the keys to restore the (I assume) encrypted backups. With Bitwarden you can still access the vault even if the server is offline/lost. It’s not a replacement for a backup strategy.

The nice thing about Bitwarden is that all vaults are locally saved on every device where you access it. So even if your NAS, server and whole house burn in fire you still have all the keys on your phone.