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PLEASE READ: Don't use --safety=none for routine maintenance General I’ve noticed folks here often paste command line examples involving running: $ kopia maintenance --safety=none I can’t stress this enough: This is NOT recommended for most users and could be outright dangerous in so…	33	4574	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum Uncategorized	0	4675	August 20, 2020
Full Maintenance reports: error rewriting contents in short packs: failed to rewrite 2 contents Support	6	101	November 12, 2026
Kopia backups for Canadian clients: keeping every snapshot in Canada General Topics	0	14	November 11, 2026
Snapshot expiration/deletion is still done on client side? Support	1	30	November 9, 2026
Unused blobs not being pruned Support	7	261	November 6, 2026
Multiple directories Support	9	3177	November 6, 2026
Maintenance seems to do nothing but create a new blob Support	0	30	November 5, 2026
Can't read from repository Support	1	31	November 4, 2026
Estimation has been interrupted Support	1	49	November 4, 2026
Monitoring snapshots with a heartbeat check (actions + error webhook), tested on 0.23.1 General Topics	0	6	November 3, 2026
Connection timeout Support	4	44	October 30, 2026
Schedule sync to multiple repositories with Kopia running as Linux systemd service General Topics	1	34	October 30, 2026
How to backup 'symblink folders' ? not content to target folder just symblink Support	4	109	October 30, 2026
Include/Exclude Rules to for Chromium/Gecko userdata backup General Topics	0	24	October 30, 2026
Gui not show folders in snapshot General Topics	0	38	October 28, 2026
New rewrite of the gdrive kopia backend General Topics	0	52	October 24, 2026
Restore a folder from UI Feature Requests	10	2339	October 24, 2026
Where did Kopia restore my files to? General Topics	0	61	October 23, 2026
Kopia (UI) reports error during maintenance but does not tell any details Support	2	74	October 23, 2026
Migrated repo NAS between routers, now known hosts is always invalid Support	0	34	October 22, 2026
Browse button in Restore [KopiaUI] Feature Requests	2	138	October 15, 2026
Kopia server possible memory leak Support	2	108	October 12, 2026
Why is KopiaUI showing more files than it can restore ? What is happening here? Support	7	145	October 10, 2026
Trolling for success (or horror!) stories re: compression choices for a small Windows LAN General Topics	2	88	October 6, 2026
Storageconfig via env variable General Topics	0	41	October 4, 2026
Password as plain text in the `repository.config` file. Why? General Topics	0	104	October 3, 2026
Kopia UI: External HDD almost immedately shows up on Windows 11, but take quite some time on Linux Mint 22 General Topics	10	186	October 2, 2026
Confused About the Config File General	2	119	September 22, 2026
Is it allowed to use the Kopia logo on my website? General Topics	1	117	September 22, 2026

PLEASE READ: Don't use --safety=none for routine maintenance

I’ve noticed folks here often paste command line examples involving running: $ kopia maintenance --safety=none I can’t stress this enough: This is NOT recommended for most users and could be outright dangerous in so…