Backup using Domain Account

A complete guide for configuring automatic backups, using domain accounts and local folders, or network shares.

Overview

Passwordstate is an application that communicates to, and stores all of your data in a Microsoft SQL Database. In the event of a disaster, you may need to restore your database and Passwordstate installation files, which will require you to have them backed up.

Passwordstate has a built-in automatic backup feature which can be configured to suit your requirements. For example, you may already have another solution for your SQL database backups, so you can set Passwordstate to not backup up your database, but maybe just the install files.

Not only is the SQL database critical to have a backup of, but there are also encryption keys which are located in your web.config file. These too are also critical to have a copy of in the event of a disaster, setting up the Passwordstate automated Backup feature will ensure you have everything you need to restore your environment.

This document will help you configure Passwordstate to use an Active Directory Domain account for the backups, and will also use a Network Share to store the data.

Please Note: If using cloud-based database services like Azure SQL or Amazon RDS, you cannot perform database backups using our software, as those platforms do not support it.