What an export is
An export is a plain copy of your items that anything can read. Relic makes a new folder named for the day and time, and puts two things in it:
- vault.json holds the items themselves: their titles, notes, tags, text and file names, and the day each one was copied.
- blobs holds copies of the images and files that are on this computer, one file each.
The row says the important part itself: Settings › Vault and storage › Export vault.
Exporting
- Press Export
Open Settings with the gear, go to Vault and storage, and press Export… on the Export vault row. A picker opens titled Choose where to export your vault. Pick the folder to write into. Relic makes its own folder inside it.
- Decide about secrets
A panel opens showing where the export will go and a switch labelled Include secret contents (otherwise secrets are exported redacted). Leave it off and anything Relic masked is written without its text, so an API key or a card number does not end up in a plain file. Turn it on when the point of the export is to move everything somewhere else.
- Press Export again
The line under the row counts up while it works, for example Exporting… 40 / 128. When it finishes it reads Exported 128 items (14 files) and an Open folder button appears beside it.
Export or backup
Relic can make two kinds of copy and they are for different jobs.
- Export when you want to read the data yourself, feed it to a script, or move it into another app. It is plain, so treat it like any other folder of your own files.
- A backup when you just want a copy that is safe if something goes wrong. It is one encrypted file, it happens every week without you, and only your backup passphrase opens it, so a cloud folder is a fine place to keep it.
Both come back through the same row. See Restore from a backup, and Settings: Vault and storage for the rest of that pane.