First off - sorry it’s taken me a while to respond to this (I was dealing with a family matter these last few days).
Anyways, back to the thread. Here’s my process and where I eventually ran into an issue. I do feel like I got very close to getting it to work though.
- Created a Cryptomator vault (located in OneDrive), selected the first three boxes in advanced settings (when I said checked off I meant selected, like “check off my list” - should have made that more clear).
- Created the task in Personal Backup. The backup destination is the vault, the directory to be backed up is Photos. For starters, I designated the backup schedule to be at first logon every Sunday.
- For this newly created task, under “other options” I checked the “execute before backup” box and selected Cryptomator. Then I saved. The additional options in the External Programs section (such as the “wait until program terminates” box being checked) were left in their default state.
This is where I started to run into issues. I hit “start backup” to see if everything would work smoothly. The task window for the backup popped up, as did the window for Cryptomator. In the Cryptomator window, the designated vault had the unlocked symbol next to it. So far so good. I didn’t click on anything else because I wanted to see if everything would be done automatically. I waited 15 minutes to see what would happen and when the task window for Personal Backup was still showing me 0% progress, I decided to go ahead and click on my Cryptomator vault displayed in the list of options in the Cryptomator window. The little side loading screen came up and the red loading bar did it’s thing, and the end result looked just like this picture.
Nevertheless, this didn’t seem to do anything. Despite the fact that the vault shows up decrypted when I click on “reveal drive” and I can view the (empty) contents of the vault, the Personal Backup task seemed to be making no progress whatsoever and was still at 0% a good 30 minutes later. At this point I tried locking the Cryptomator vault to see what would happen and got the message “do you want to force locking? This may be because other programs are still accessing files in the vault or because some other problem occurred.” Finally, I decided to do a forced log-off, as Personal Backup was behaving strangely as well (clicking “cancel” didn’t do anything, couldn’t exit Personal Backup, etc. - basically everything seemed to be halted).
I’m not sure what to do now. Any advice?
Two other questions popped into my head during this process as well - the first of them being whether or not checking the box “encrypt files” when first configuring a backup task is superfluous if the directories are going to be backed up to Cryptomator vault anyways, the second being which option would be best to select for “Action after backup” - “none”, “shutdown”, “logoff”, “standby”, or “hibernate”? I don’t want Cryptomator and Personal Backup to both be left up and running after a backup has been successfully completed; ideally I’d like both programs to automatically be closed for me as soon as the backup finishes.
Thank you so much for all of your help so far!