# Wallet backup: consider Spideroak One

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/wallet-backup-consider-spideroak-one/17068>\
**Category:** Zcash Apps\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/wallet-backup-consider-spideroak-one/17068 "2017-06-12T21:28:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![JvM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/jvm/32/4932_2.png) [@JvM](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/JvM)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/wallet-backup-consider-spideroak-one/17068/1 "2017-06-12T21:28:16Z")

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This is a very savvy readership, so if you are already familiar with Spideroak One skip this post.

Spideroak One is an ultra-secure “Dropbox” alternative with a “zero knowledge” architecture. Your keypair is generated locally and NEVER leaves your machine. All files are encrypted (AES-256) locally before synchronizing with the Spideroak cloud. You specify the directories/file for real-time synchronization. Set it and forget it.

Of course, you’ll use /dev/urandom to generate a strong password for Spideroak One. And of course, you’ll store that password securely, because without it you’re toast. There is no “email me a reset password” bailout.

Be sure to backup wallet.dat and zcash.conf … because without the latter you’re toast (thanks to the former being encrypted). I perform a zcash-cli z\_exportwallet periodically, and I backup that directory as well.

Last but not least, Spideroak One performs complete versioning. That’s potentially a game saver, as we humans have a way of mucking up a file and not realizing it until weeks later.

Absolutely no affiliation with Spideroak One, just a satisfied user for quite some years.