Answers: <p>If your secret backend is a separate service, which it should be, then with regular backups you should be able to stop vault, replace the backend with a backup and be good to go.</p>
  
  <p>I've done this for a file backend but don't know what would happen for other backends so ymmv.</p>
  
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Answers: So for example do regular snapshots?
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Answers: Basically yes. Depending on how often you add secrets your snapshots may become _very_ regular though.
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Body: <p>According to <a href="https://www.vaultproject.io/intro/getting-started/first-secret.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial</a>, it is possible to delete a secret, by running:</p>
  
  <pre><code>vault delete secret/hello
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What will if someone in the organization accidentally removed a secret. Is it still possible to recover this?</p>
  
Tags: <hashicorp-vault>
Title: Is it possible to recover accidentally deleted HashiCorp's Vault secrets?
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ThreadText: # Is it possible to recover accidentally deleted HashiCorp's Vault secrets?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-13)
  
  According to [this tutorial](https://www.vaultproject.io/intro/getting-started/first-secret.html), it is possible to delete a secret, by running:
  
  ```
  vault delete secret/hello
  
  ```
  
  What will if someone in the organization accidentally removed a secret. Is it still possible to recover this?
  
  **Tags:** hashicorp-vault
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-14. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  If your secret backend is a separate service, which it should be, then with regular backups you should be able to stop vault, replace the backend with a backup and be good to go.
  
  I've done this for a file backend but don't know what would happen for other backends so ymmv.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: So for example do regular snapshots?  
  > **username_1**: Basically yes. Depending on how often you add secrets your snapshots may become _very_ regular though.  
  
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