Cryptomator: A Warning About Data Loss

TCB13@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 16 points –

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.

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

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

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

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.