What is Kopia?
Kopia is a fast and secure open-source backup/restore tool that allows you to create encrypted
snapshots of your data and save the snapshots to remote or cloud storage of your choice,
to network-attached storage or server, or locally on your machine.
Kopia does not ‘image’ your whole machine.
Rather, Kopia allows you to backup/restore any and all files/directories that you deem are important or critical.As written on the official homepage introduction page, it is an open source backup solution.
Through encryption, it also supports various cloud systems such as AWS, Google Drive, and OneDrive. Of course, it also supports internal local file systems.
Installation
If you access Kopia, there is a download button on the upper right. If you click on the link, you can see that it supports various OSes such as Linux and Windows.
We will use it easily with Windows GUI. Kopia Github Releases If you click on the above address, you can download it. Download the file called KopiAUI-version-win.zip and unzip it to an appropriate folder.
How to run and use
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Run it with KopiaUI.exe.
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When you run it, you need to set up a repository. We will use a local directory.
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Set the local path.
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Set the path temporarily.
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Set the password for the repository, and create it with the default settings.
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Create a snapshot.
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Set the path for the backup target.
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This is what it looks like after it's been created.
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Let's put a test file in the target folder to be backed up.
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Let's take a snapshot.
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If you click on the Path path and view the details, you can see that the snapshot was taken normally.
Conclusion
It seems to be useful for regularly backing up important files or photos, or when operating a NAS directly.