Recovering Your Utila Backup
Station70 provides secure storage and policy-based recovery for your Utila vault backups. This guide walks you through recovering your backup with Station70.
To begin a recovery, log into your Station70 account and navigate to the Backups tab. Select your Utila backup and choose Recover Entire Workspace. This will initiate the recovery process. Depending on how your policy is configured, a certain number of recovery users will be needed to approve the request before it proceeds.
Once the necessary approvals have been completed, the member who initiated the recovery will be able to download the recovery package. At this point, you’ll also need to log into your Utila account. Return to Vault Settings, Backup, and select Export Wallet Data. This step is required, as both Station70 and Utila will provide you with separate JSON files that must be used together to complete your recovery.
To proceed with the recovery, download the official Utila recovery tool called Developer CLI Package, from the Utila Resource Center. Open your computer’s terminal, and load the recovery file you received from Station70, and input your Seed Phrase. Next to the Wallet Data section in the terminal, add the JSON file you exported from Utila. You command should look similar to the following:
./utilacli-arm64-darwin backup --backup-file encrypted_backup.json recover --backup-mnemonic vault,backup,the,other,thirteen,words,of,the,seed,phrase --wallets-data utila_vault_VAULTID_wallet_data_DATE.json
When everything is in place, hit enter. Your recovered vault information will be displayed in the terminal.
⚠️ Note: Utila’s recovery process does not return HD keys. It provides the private key only for the specific asset(s) you select.
Sample (redacted) output:
Wallet Blockchain Address Secret
Bitcoin Main Bitcoin bc1... zprv...J7VBT2
Solana Solana 8UR... 0x9c...cdd4a1
Bitcoin test Bitcoin Testnet tb1... vprv...LwS4fE
If you need further assistance at any step, please contact Station70 Support.