For long-term backups, it's essential to export your passwords, bookmarks, and wallet information
manually.
Sync should not be relied on as a backup solution since the Sync Code changes daily.
Here are the best methods for backing up your data.
Go to brave://password-manager/settings and click Export to download your passwords.
Go to brave://bookmarks/ and click Export Bookmarks from the menu in the top-right
corner.
If you use Brave Wallet and haven't saved your recovery phrase,
go to brave://wallet/crypto/backup-wallet to get your phrase.
- Go to brave://password-manager/settings
- Click Import to select your saved passwords
- Go to brave://bookmarks/
- Click Import Bookmarks from the top-right menu.
- Go to the Brave Wallet section,
- Click Restore,
- Then enter your recovery phrase and create a new password.
- For users who want to preserve more than just passwords and bookmarks
- (such as extensions or settings)...
- You can back up your user profile folder.
- However, this method is not officially recommended as it can cause issues
- Especially with version mismatches!!
- Follow the same steps listed above to export passwords and bookmarks.
- Go to brave://version and find the Profile Path.
- It will look something like...
- C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default.
- Use your file explorer to navigate to the User Data folder
- back up the entire folder to an external drive or cloud storage.
- Install Brave on your new device or after resetting your current one.
- Replace the new \brave-browser
- folder with the one you backed up earlier.
Follow the steps from the Official Backup Method to restore passwords and wallet information.
- Always manually export and save your passwords, bookmarks, and wallet recovery phrase.
- Sync should only be used for syncing data between devices,
- NOT as a reliable backup.