Recently, I learned that many accounts from popular password managers (such as LastPass and 1Password) are being unexpectedly and inexplicably deleted.
This, of course, has a devastating and serious impact and should be avoided at all costs.
So the purpose of this repository is to provide the simplest and fastest solution for automatically backing up your Bitwarden vault on Windows devices.
This is especially aimed at those who are not "tech-savvy," meaning non-technical users outside the IT world.
Once you run below steps, you'll have a scheduled task on your Windows PC, running daily at 2pm, exporting the entire vault to a Desktop folder named bitwarden-exports.
Vault backups are JSON files encrypted with a custom password, so they can be imported into a new/different account.
You can change task's schedule according to your liking, by opening the Task Scheduler and selecting the properties of the task named BackupBWVaultTask.
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Install Powershell > 6.0
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Install Bitwarden CLI. If you don't know how to do that, open Powershell and run:
# First
.\utils\choco_install.ps1
# Then
choco install bitwarden-cliBear in mind, that if you choose the native executable installation method, you also have to set the proper System Path, otherwise the script won't work at all
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Create generic credentials in Windows Credentials Manager:
- BW_CLIENTID = your BW API client ID
- BW_CLIENTSECRET = your BW API client secret
- BW_MASTER_PASSWORD = your BW Vault master password
- BW_ENC_PASSWORD = your custom encryption passowrd (this will be required once you import the backup file onto the new account)
On a Powershell window run:
# Change directory to the one containing the script
# example: cd C:\Users\User\Desktop\bitwarden-exporter
# And then
.\export_bw_vault.ps1