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.

  • mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.deEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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

    • andrewAEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

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

      • mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.deEnglish
        1·
        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.