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jimkleiber 7 days ago

Perhaps they will?

> Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing

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_aavaa_ 7 days ago | parent [-]

A backup option has been missing for years. Future plans on this particular topic seem to take forever.

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jimkleiber 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I built a micro-journaling app back in the day and wanted it to be highly secure. Backups seemed to be one of the most vulnerable surfaces for that. I imagine their delay might have been a combination of a technological and ideological worries, as that's what I experienced.

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_aavaa_ 6 days ago | parent [-]

How did you encrypt the data at rest and why was that also not good for the backup?

	▲	jimkleiber 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		SQLcipher, and i believe the tech was good but at the time, because it asked for a password every time the app open, i figured most people would put a very short and simple password and an encrypted db with a short password was a lot more hackable, especially on Android, if the file got outside the app sandbox. I suppose now i could do some combination of PIN plus passkey, and have to figure out how to make the database recoverable if people forget their PIN (or lose their passkey?) without me having to store it for them or it being easy to access. I'm no expert on this, just think the complexity can be a lot more when taking this all into consideration.

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crtasm 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's been backing up to my SD card for years, I've not set up a script to transfer it off-device though.

	▲	_aavaa_ 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That only works on android. The same basic functionally, even backing up to a place on the phone, has been missing.