I want to use a sync client to backup my work folders. Working in the virtual Cryptomator drive can create a lot of i/o and I don’t need a permanent sync. I’m fine to do a sync once a day or so. So usually I would just pause my sync client for the cloud storage and work in the directory. Then when …

[image] box2353: The only other idea would be to sync the work folder occasionally to the virtual tresor drive That’s exactly what I’m doing for years now without any problems. (But of course I have more than one backup. Cryptomator vault is only one of it :wink:)

How do you do it technically? I think it could be a lot of manual and error possibilities. Like I have to start cryptomator until it’s mounted. Then I have to start the cloud sync client. Then I need to manually sync the folder into the cryptomator virtual drive. Any scripts for that or ideas how t…

Thanks Michael. Sounds not bad, but I have to think if this could be a solution for me. As said, one problem is space that duplicating everything would cause. I’m using a backup solution too, but it’s not working in file level and is creating images. I’m thinking that my backup strategy will get to…

after thinking about this. as far as I understand cryptomator is not build for local encryption. wouldn’t it make sense keep mounted drive all the time, even when the tresor is closed? this way you could just open the tresor and all new files would be synced to the encrypted folder, while still be…

[image] box2353: as far as I understand cryptomator is not build for local encryption. Yes, that is correct. It was built to give users the ability to encrypt files to be stored online. For local encryption, tools designed for this purpose should be used. For example Veracrypt. https://docs.…

[image] Michael: [image] box2353: as far as I understand cryptomator is not build for local encryption. Yes, that is correct. It was built to give users the ability to encrypt files to be stored online. For local encryption, tools designed for this purpose should be used. For example Vera…

[image] Markqz: Could you elaborate? I thought the whole point was to make a local encrypted vault, that then could get synched to a cloud storage. So couldn’t this be used for local encryption as well? Cryptomator is build for single file encryption that was designed to work with as many onl…

I dont understand that. Cloud sync does the same as it does before. It syncs your local files to the vault. But with cryptomator the files are now encrypted. That’s what cryptomator was build for. It’s the initially explained problem. I have to duplicate and sync my working folder to Cryptomator,…

I wonder why you’re having so much IO ? Are you sure the IO is caused by Cryptomator and not the synch agent? I’m guessing that you’re running some program directly inside of the tresor, and that program is constantly making support/temp files which create a lot of IO. And then your sync agent is co…

Sync local work folders to the cloud without having to work in the virtual Cryptomator drive?

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Michael October 17, 2020, 9:17pm 4

I use a backup solution to sync my files into the vault. The sync client that syncs the encrypted vault files into the cloud is doing all the Rest. No manual steps needed.