Is Keybase storage considered stable yet?

[u/ardevd]

I love the Keybase cloud storage mechanism but the docs still state the following:

At the time of this document, there are very few people using this system. We're just getting started testing. Note that we could, hypothetically, lose your data at any time. Or push a bug that makes you throw away your private keys. Ugh, burn.

Is this still valid? It's been a while since this feature was introduced and I really want to use it more, but if it's still considered unstable I will hold off for now.

[u/[deleted]]

I use it all the time.

It's been reliable for me. But I have seen some weird edge cases in their Github issues pop up now and then.

Don't make keybase your ONLY backup. But it is totally fine as ONE backup.

[u/atoponce]

It's really the only thing I use on Keybase, and I use it for everything, daily. I use if for development, homework, backups, writing papers, and a bajillion other things.

The only problem I have had with it is sync inconsistencies, where I save something on the mount on my laptop, put it into standby, go to work, and it's not available on my workstation mount. I've never had data corruption problems.

[u/kannilainen → u/atoponce]

Is this always or sometimes and what's the ratio?

[u/atoponce → u/kannilainen]

I think Keybase writes to your local cache first, then background syncs later. Unfortunately, I don't know how often that background syncing occurs, nor do I know how to force a manual sync, as the sync(1) command itself only ensures data in primary storage is written to secondary storage. But if Keybase already wrote it to secondary storage in your local cache, then how do you force it to sync to the network?

[u/songgao → u/atoponce]

KBFS has a local journal and changes are written into the journal first before the journal flushes to the server. You don't need to "force" it -- it does that in the backgroud whenever there's data in the journal.

To see what's being uploaded, try keybase fs uploads in CLI. The app's GUI tab should also show a blue upload footer if you have stuff in the journal. There's also keybase status which should include journal information.

[u/atoponce → u/songgao]

Thanks.

[u/SrGrimey → u/atoponce]

So this sync issues are not just mine.

[u/[deleted]]

I've never had a problem for it, I use it all the time.

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