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Cloud providers currently known to be supported:
- Nextcloud
- Google: Android Settings > Backup > Back up now; it's [on your Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/backups)

When migrating to a new phone, just install Aegis again, and the Cloud provider
will restore its backup to the new device. You can test restoring a backup by
uninstalling the app and re-installing it. To convince yourself that the data
wasn't just left on the device, you can _Clear storage_ and _Clear cache_
in Aegis' App info _Storage and cache_ settings before uninstalling it.

If Aegis is already installed and you see the welcome screen when starting the app
although you were expecting to restore your backup, reinstall the app. This should
help to get you into the restore process from above, asking you for your password.

The password that it asks you for after a (re)install means that the restore
from the Cloud provider worked! But it was sent encrypted to the Cloud provider.
So you do need the Aegis vault password that you originally set on the previous device.

If you recently added a new entry, then before doing such a test, make sure
that Aegis' own _Backup Settings_ confirm the most recent backup was successful.
For Google Cloud provider backup, you can explicitly trigger a backup from System
_Settings > Back up or copy data > Back up data > Back up now._ (Which is only
useful for testing; for normal use, it does it automagically at an appropriate time.)

Another common setup is to configure Aegis to back up to a folder on local
storage of your device and then have a separate app (like
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