Cryptomator: A Warning About Data Loss

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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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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.