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
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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
Well i do that with termux just import the keys to android
I'm not going to "vote" for a solution, but I know Cryptomator is weak and it fails. For me Veracrypt is the only solution I trust but that isn't cloud compatible.
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.
What are the alternatives?
I used to use https://www.cryfs.org/ for my notes, but I just moved everything into standard notes. I wasn't happy with the lack of mobile access