1Password8 limitations are a potential deal breaker

amcd

Thank you for the reply. Yes, https://my.1password.com is the web app which allows you to access your 1Password items through the browser. However, I recommend that you install the 1Password 8 app which stores your items locally to ensure that you have access to your data even when without internet access. This local storage works the same way as it did for 1Password accounts with 1Password 7 for Mac.

I understand local / standalone vaults within 1P7 and I use this function....

Standalone vaults won't be part of 1Password moving forward. Our founder Dave wrote a post explaining our decision here: The future of local/standalone vaults — 1Password Support Community

In 1P7, I can create a last ditch password backup via PDF (which is kept in a strong encrypted disk)

With 1Password accounts your data is stored locally on all of your devices where you've installed the 1Password app and it is also automatically backed up to your 1Password.com account. That being said, we do have a feature request open to build a Print to PDF feature for 1Password 8 and I've added your comments there so that our developers are aware that this is something that you'd like to see.

I can also create a local *.pif backup (again this would be kept on an encrypted disk)

With 1Password 8 you can create a .1PUX export of your account which will contain everything in your account including files. You can read more about this here:

• About the 1Password Unencrypted Export format
• How to export data from 1Password

We're also working on a .1PEX encrypted export that will hopefully be available in the future.

So far, you guys have not explained how, in 1P8 how I can create a seperate local physical password backup for the online server?

With 1Password accounts then there is no need to manually backup your vault since your data is already backed up to your 1Password account in the cloud. If you accidentally delete an item you can always restore it from your 1Password account on 1Password.com: View and restore previous versions of items

Your encrypted data is also replicated to redundant copies on our end to guard against any data loss.

But, as mentioned, a 1PUX export would allow you to export your entire account to a local unencrypted file if that was what you wished to do. Let me know if that answers your question. 🙂

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#9570