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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
https://keepassxc.org/
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How likely is database corruption? #6538

Closed macruspareto closed 3 years ago

macruspareto commented 3 years ago

I used to store my passwords in txt files in Truecrypt (then Veracrypt) container. For 10+ years I had accidental reboots, BSoDs, dirty unmounts, power loss but the container has never got rendered inaccessible/damaged. Very fail-safe.

How fault-tolerant is the KeePass design? After every change, I backup my .kdbx in three separate locations (USB and NAS), with older copies aswell so I could rollback.

But still, in your opinion, is there a risk of database corruption? Mainly due to file I/O, overwriting and re-encrypting, improper unmounting etc?

droidmonkey commented 3 years ago

I've been using keepassxc since 2016, keepass2 before that. Since developing keepassxc I've eaten my own dog food and run on develop snapshots. I store my db in onedrive and use keepassdx on mobile. I have never once had a corrupt or inaccessible database. I've never corrupted a test database either during strange debugging scenarios. Your likliest cause of corruption is usb drives that are not properly unmounted.