Feeling like an idiot. I decided to perform a reinstall of self hosted bitwarden on my ubuntu server machine. In the uninstall process it prompted me to save databse files.
(WARNING: UNINSTALL STARTED) Would you like to save the database files? (y/n):
Obviously I clicked yes and got a .tar.gz file with a .bak file in it containing my vault. After researching, turns out I need encryption keys from my old install which does make sense as it is an encrypted backup but it doesnt make sense to me that the uninstaller would give me the option to save backup files but not allow me to do anything with them?
Is there any way to go about recovery?
.tar.gz archive contains these files in the mssql > data folder
And a backup file in the mssql > backups folder
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This is all my passwords and I will likely lose access to several self hosted services which don’t have 2 factor or a forgot password feature.