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Cryptomator: A Warning About Data Loss (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A good reminder that backup was never the feature. Restore is the feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the problem with restic? Were you able to mitigate the issue at least?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there any better alternatives for use with cloud storage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why people try to find another software alternatives instead of the use of the best and practice:

The GPG!

Works flawless for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well i do that with termux just import the keys to android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

gocryptfs is quite nice, but I haven't found an iOS client yet. On Android there is DroidFS at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it with Dropbox. I haven’t noticed any data loss. I’ll have to investigate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well we never notice until it is too late. My experience (and others apparently) is that files go missing randomly inside your folder, usually long names / very deep stuff that you won't look at everyday. I also got a few image files that got corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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