Backup using Local Windows Account

A complete guide for configuring automatic backups, using a local account and a local folder.

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 installation 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, so 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 a Local Windows account for the backups, and will also use a local folder to store the data. The reason you may want to use a local account and local folder is because you are hosting Passwordstate on a non domain joined machine. The idea would be to have Passwordstate back up to a local folder, and then use an external process to automate moving the data to some other location, like a secure network share or cloud-based storage solution.

INFO

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.