Encrypting the database

What’s considered the primary copy? How does it fit needed use cases?

Provide option to automatically export backup configuration. #6256
was my attempt at saying how one might backup settings, but it’s painful.
I personally like portability of exports because the database might not be.

Migrating Duplicati to a new machine

From version 2.3 the default is to encrypt the configuration database, and you need to decrypt it before copying. If you have disabled database encryption, you can skip the decryption step.

was added, I think per my remark about it needing to be said for new plan.
Good advice, but it only works if you find it, plan ahead, and get that done.

highlights the settings risk that users now face by default. While the user
should probably keep at least enough somewhere else to be able to run
Direct restore from backup files, having to recreate the jobs may be hard.

Arguably the restore is more important, and the settings loss isn’t all-new.
What’s new is the non-portable encryption-by-default makes it more likely.