Kopia Forum

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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	4259	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum	0	4611	August 20, 2020
Backup hangs seemingly indefinitely Support	0	10	August 9, 2026
Can not connect to existing repo General Topics	1	26	August 9, 2026
Kopia UI using wrong date and time format General Topics	1	36	August 8, 2026
Bug: "the repository is corrupted, it is missing pack blobs with index-referenced content" General Topics	0	16	August 8, 2026
Cannot Back Up: Error "cannot create iterator...unable to read directory: open /home/.Trash-0" Support	2	41	August 4, 2026
Not authorized from Windows KopiaUI to docker Kopia Server Support	2	30	August 4, 2026
Passing cli arguments to the UI? --parallel? Support	3	587	July 30, 2026
Built a monitoring agent for Kopia, found its local cache can mask real corruption General Topics	0	61	July 25, 2026
I'm NewTo Enchrypted backups. What if...? General Topics	3	72	July 24, 2026
30+ shared folders on a NAS, how to schedule all those for backups? General Topics	3	104	July 19, 2026
Failing to Open Kopia Repository Support	7	128	July 16, 2026
Snapshot GC failure: Could not undelete referenced content (deleted session blob, BLOB not found) - Kopia 0.22.3 / S3/MinIO Support	10	157	July 13, 2026
[SOLVED] Kopia ui no longer takes snapshots and I can't run Snapshot now Support	4	169	July 13, 2026
Appimage Version Not Running Maintenance? Support	1	59	July 12, 2026
Discord Webhook Support	2	382	July 11, 2026
Switching two external drives once a montn General Topics	3	112	July 5, 2026
Problem rotating external HD with "repository sync-to" General Topics	0	46	July 4, 2026
Use existing Windows shadow copy for kopia backup General Topics	0	71	June 29, 2026
Does kopia supports LDAPS authentication? General Topics	0	32	June 22, 2026
Maintenance task not running because of time skew but both kopia's docker container clock and the host's one are synced Support	2	54	June 20, 2026
alist webdav repository clock skew General Topics	1	128	June 17, 2026
Exclude all except a folder? Support	8	183	June 14, 2026
Do I need to retake full backup regularly? General	9	290	June 12, 2026
Find Rules Conflicts and config file compatbility with Windows using / slash Support	0	38	June 7, 2026
Failed to open repository when running diff Support	0	35	June 7, 2026
Ignore folder except 1 subfolder General Topics	11	257	June 7, 2026
How to fix missing blobs? Support	16	965	June 4, 2026
Portable Binary on Linux General Topics	1	55	June 2, 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…