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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…	34	3952	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum	0	4564	August 20, 2020
Best Practices for Mac Backups, Cloud Storage Choices, and Folder Selection General Topics	1	25	May 14, 2026
Add option for “only include” mode with .kopiainclude Feature Requests	2	27	May 14, 2026
Daily backup schedule using CLI Support	0	4	May 13, 2026
Same files synched from two different OS General Topics	1	15	May 13, 2026
Is it possible to 'un-delete' a snapshot/recover files for an older snapshot from the repo? Support	1	24	May 13, 2026
Diff commond: show files moved instead of remove/added for the file Feature Requests	0	15	May 12, 2026
Kopia ui -- diff General	3	373	May 12, 2026
Kopia-ui is not working after installing update which was shown to me Support	0	27	May 12, 2026
Kopia keeps snapshotting certain shapshots on startup when it shouldn't Support	1	17	May 11, 2026
Objects are "backed by missing blob" - but blobs exist? Support	0	8	May 11, 2026
How to use "kopia repository sync-to from-config"? General Topics	0	18	May 10, 2026
Kopia Repository Server Protocol General Topics	1	33	May 10, 2026
Kopia retention policy visualizer General Topics	0	36	May 10, 2026
Backup config folder ? Config Symlink ? DeDup? Ghost of excluded data ? File Histroy and Change Track ? Checking backups? Support	23	174	May 9, 2026
Use backup to check integrity of main data? Support	1	35	May 9, 2026
How to have Kopia prompt be to take snapshot when I connect both external disk and backup disk? Support	1	39	May 9, 2026
KopiaUI on Linux - high memory, constant network upload Support	0	27	May 9, 2026
Restore error: finish directory: setting attributes: couldnt change mod time on chtimes The parameter is incorrect Support	0	16	May 9, 2026
Got notification 'Snapshot failed error:fatal' and Red ! in Repo but Tasks also says "succeeded after x" Support	1	32	May 9, 2026
Option to save excluded data's metadata? Feature Requests	1	71	May 8, 2026
Web UI on remote server shutsdown periodically Support	0	15	May 6, 2026
KOPIA not seeing snapshots in folder General Topics	1	29	May 6, 2026
Browse button in Restore [KopiaUI] Feature Requests	1	73	May 6, 2026
Help for a win11 refugee :) General Topics	1	50	May 4, 2026
Kopia Forever Initialising General Topics	0	77	May 1, 2026
Snapshot GC failure: Could not undelete referenced content (deleted session blob, BLOB not found) - Kopia 0.22.3 / S3/MinIO Support	9	91	April 30, 2026
Option to “backup selective parts” Feature Requests	0	32	April 29, 2026
Newbie to Kopia - Enjoy it, but need help for the next steps General Topics	4	82	April 28, 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…