<p>One thing you should know is, even though you can backup vault(consul, if you are using one as backend), you cannot restore to a new vault installation (if you loose the existing one). You can just restore to the original one.</p>

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Can you provide a citation for that ?
Tim Hughes
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pichekistha
<p>Vault will distribute multiple unseal keys but there's nothing to stop you from keeping all of the keys in one place for a personal project.</p>

<p>The one time I did it I set the keys to 3 and kept them in different physical locations along with online locations.</p>

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Briansbum
<p>The Vault documentation indicates that there is a master key and that multiple keys are required to access the secrets, but does this mean that Vault is not suitable for personal projects if there is only one PC?</p>

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Is Hashicorp's Vault suitable for personal projects as well?
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# Is Hashicorp's Vault suitable for personal projects as well?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-14)

The Vault documentation indicates that there is a master key and that multiple keys are required to access the secrets, but does this mean that Vault is not suitable for personal projects if there is only one PC?

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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-08-14. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

Vault will distribute multiple unseal keys but there's nothing to stop you from keeping all of the keys in one place for a personal project.

The one time I did it I set the keys to 3 and kept them in different physical locations along with online locations.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-08-09. Score: 1

One thing you should know is, even though you can backup vault(consul, if you are using one as backend), you cannot restore to a new vault installation (if you loose the existing one). You can just restore to the original one.

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> **username_2**: Can you provide a citation for that ?  

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