Answers: <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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Answers: <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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Body: <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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Title: Is Hashicorp's Vault suitable for personal projects as well?
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ThreadText: # 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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