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title: 🔰 Safe backup and recovery
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Backup and recovery</h1>

# Safe recovery hub

#### About

- Marketplace for Safe account recovery options
- Built as a Safe module
- *See [Introducing Safe{RecoveryHub} - A new crypto wallet recovery ecosystem launching with Sygnum and Coincover](https://safe.mirror.xyz/WxKSxD9J1bRI-SDOuDvAAIezwVrvWWkpuwuzcLDPSmk) by Safe*

#### Types of recovery

- Social recovery/self-custody: Set other accounts to be able to recover your account
- Custodial recovery: Provide an organization the ability to provide partial or full recovery
- Approval threshold recovery: In-progress (2023-12-14)
- Set a threshold of approvals from specific accounts required for recovery
- *See [@SchorLukas Tweet 2023-12-07](https://twitter.com/SchorLukas/status/1732724892997472320)*
- Hybrid recovery: A mix of the above recovery options

#### Features

- Review window
- Set a time-lock, period of time it takes for the recovery process to finalize
- The original owner can cancel the recovery during this time period
- Transaction expiry
- The period of time the recoverer has to finalize the recovery after the review window
- Default is infinite
- Set a new owner
- Set by the recoverer after the recovery action is finalized

# Manual backup

## Steps

1. Save [information](#Information-to-save) offline with multiple redundancies.
2. Test the recovery process.

a. Setup
1. Use a new wallet addresses that will only be used for testing.
2. Use a low amount of funds.

b. Optional compatibility test
1. Swap the seed phrases between signing accounts/devices when going through the recovery process.
2. You may need the original derivation path(s) for the wallet addresses.
3. Verify the cosigners/owners have the expected address.
a. Verify the receive address in each signing account/device's app.
b. Verify the Safe account address when loaded into the Safe app after recovery.

## Information to save

- The Safe account's require threshold of private signing accounts/keys
- Seed phrase(s)
- All signing accounts
- Derivation paths (If a hardware wallet)
- Recommended
- Safe account address
- This can be found in the transaction history in a worst-case.

# Without the Safe apps

#### About

- Use in a worst-case scenario where the core Safe team no longer exists.
- *See [Trustless interface](https://help.safe.global/en/articles/3940868-trustless-interface)*

#### Components

1. User Interface (UI) options
- Download the Safe app.
- [GitHub releases](https://github.com/safe-global/safe-react/releases)
- Or use the last desktop app with a checksum and [verify the download](https://help.safe.global/en/articles/4062072-verifying-the-desktop-app-authenticity).
- Use the web app: [app.safe.global](https://app.safe.global)
- Previous Safe smart contract versions work with the Safe app UIs: *[Add hardware wallet support #29](https://github.com/5afe/safe-cli/issues/29#issuecomment-838723509)*

2. Smart contracts, backend infrastructure, and transaction indexer
a. [Command Line Interface](https://github.com/5afe/safe-cli#safe-cli) (CLI)
- Use the commands in the computer's terminal.
- The CLI will not work if all signing accounts are hardware wallets.
- You must use a version of the Safe app in step 1.
- *See [Add hardware wallet support #29](https://github.com/5afe/safe-cli/issues/29)*

b. Advanced users (Requires testing 2023-02-23)
- *Note*: Test without as many as Safe backend services and dependencies as possible.
1. Interact with the smart contract directly: [Guide: Integrating the Safe Core SDK](https://github.com/safe-global/safe-core-sdk/blob/main/guides/integrating-the-safe-core-sdk.md)
2. Run the code with the [Safe Transaction Service](https://github.com/safe-global/safe-transaction-service#safe-transaction-service).
- Connect to an Ethereum node to run the service.

<p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic">This is not financial, technical, or legal advice. Consult professionals and do your own research.</p>

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