File strategy encrypted and not-encrypted

espaan

Hi,

I'm wondering about the files I put in the encrypted folder on dropbox.

If I'm looking into encfs documentation they talk about a original folder with plain data that you encrypt into another folder with encfs, which would be on dropbox for instance.
This means that the original not-encrypted files are also still on the disk and can be backup-ed locally.

How does this work with boxcryptor ? Are the files that I put into the encrypted folder also in an not-encrypted location that for instance Time machine will backup?

I don't want to have the risk that I lose access to documents in the encrypted folder. And I also don't want to store the docs in 2 locations.

Geronimo

Boxcryptor basically follows the encfs mechanism, i.e the actual encryption takes place
in the copy process to the encrypted folder.
This means that your 'file strategy' depends on your action and needs, if you just copy your source files remain untouched, if you move them (copy+delete the original) you've got it secure but of course in the worst case can lose access to the documents.
To be really, really on the safe side you'd need to make a backup, either of the encypted folder or the unencrypted ones. Again, this depends on the purpose - if you just don't trust Dropbox for instance and only want to store private data there in an encrpyted way whilst keeping the original locally, fine. If you own really confidental data it should always be encrypted, also locally, either using full disk encyption (eg TrueCrypt) or by dedicated Boxcrypt folders.

espaan

Thanks for the response.

My intention would be to have the original not encrypted available and copies encrypted in dropbox for sharing and backup.
How do you people do that. Use a copy (and how to keep this synced with a lot of files) or copy+delete ?

Robert

Hi,

we have some information on this in our Knowledge Base:

https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/739277

Best,
Robert

espaan

Hi, thanks for the response. I have now installed a daily copy (with chronosync btw) of the un-encrypted data to a seperate dir that will be backup-ed locally with Time machine.
In the case of something wrong with the encryption folder I don't want to lose data.