Hello,
I’m just posting this as a warning to anyone using Cryptomator for serious stuff. I’ve been using it in not-very-critical stuff for some years now and the reality is that I’ve had data loss on multiple occasions under Windows.
I had two major incidents:
- After creating a vault in Google Drive (via Cyberduck) it worked fine for some time but eventually the vault was empty;
- Long file names seem to f*k something and the files simply vanish after opening the vault a few times.
If you google “cryptomator data loss” there are a LOT of complaints and frankly I’ll ditch it now.
This is why a backup strategy is only as good as the tested restore procedure!
But i agree - same was for me (years ago) with restic and minio S3.
Since then, i restore a full backup once or twice a year to a second machine to test it
A good reminder that backup was never the feature. Restore is the feature.
What was the problem with restic? Were you able to mitigate the issue at least?
I mitigated the issue by testing my restore procedure:D
I am still not sure if it was an restic or minio problem, but many files were corrupt.
today i am using borg.
Are there any better alternatives for use with cloud storage?
Why people try to find another software alternatives instead of the use of the best and practice:
The GPG!
Works flawless for years.
GPG is great, but is there an android tool to easily unlock your files? I know there is the GPG agent on the desktop but nothing came up when I looked it up for android
Well i do that with termux just import the keys to android
gocryptfs
is quite nice, but I haven’t found an iOS client yet. On Android there is DroidFS at least.
What are the alternatives?
I used to use https://www.cryfs.org/ for my notes, but I just moved everything into standard notes. I wasn’t happy with the lack of mobile access