Is rclone mount stable alongside encryption?

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I have several folders on my PC that I frequently used and I want them to be continuously synced. I want it to work even while I'm offline - similar to how OneDrive behaves when I'm offline.

Should I use rclone crypt on a local folder and then sync that using OneDrive (similar to Cryptomator)

Or can I just use rclone mount on a remote with rclone crypt linked directly to cloud storage.

(Additionally I use Round-Sync on android for both upload and download, I want the approach to be stable & efficient on it too)

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I read somewhere on this forum that mounted rclone is not stable. Especially the uploads part, uploads fail frequently.

Stability is really important, if this is not a good idea then should I use cryptomator?

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welcome to the forum,

that is not correct, the mount is very stable.

yes, that is what rclone is designed to do.

then could use rclone sync, not rclone mount

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rclone mount does not work offline.

it is not supported. You have to manually run rclone sync or if you use other devices to modify your cloud storage rclone bisync

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Thank you for the clarifications @kapitainsky and @asdffdsa, since mounting a remote directly connected to cloud storage won't work when I'm offline:

Does the following approach make sense?

  1. I'll assign my local OneDrive folder to a remote (1drv) and create an encrypted remote to it. (E1drv)
  2. I can mount the encrypted remote (E1drv) and read/write from it.
  3. OneDrive will of course keep my encrypted files continuously synced.

On RoundSync (Android) if I create a new encrypted remote to OneDrive with the same password as the one I chose for E1drv will rclone be able to decrypt properly?

I realise that at this point I'm just recreating Cryptomator in rclone - but Cryptomator's android app doesn't work properly for me, RoundSync does.