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…	34	3942	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum	0	4563	August 20, 2020
Same files synched from two different OS General Topics	0	1	May 11, 2026
Kopia keeps snapshotting certain shapshots on startup when it shouldn't Support	0	1	May 11, 2026
How to use "kopia repository sync-to from-config"? General Topics	0	8	May 10, 2026
Kopia Repository Server Protocol General Topics	1	17	May 10, 2026
Kopia retention policy visualizer General Topics	0	20	May 10, 2026
Backup config folder ? Config Symlink ? DeDup? Ghost of excluded data ? File Histroy and Change Track ? Checking backups? Support	23	168	May 9, 2026
Use backup to check integrity of main data? Support	1	26	May 9, 2026
How to have Kopia prompt be to take snapshot when I connect both external disk and backup disk? Support	1	26	May 9, 2026
KopiaUI on Linux - high memory, constant network upload Support	0	22	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	31	May 9, 2026
Add option for “only include” mode with .kopiainclude Feature Requests	1	24	May 8, 2026
Option to save excluded data's metadata? Feature Requests	1	68	May 8, 2026
Web UI on remote server shutsdown periodically Support	0	14	May 6, 2026
KOPIA not seeing snapshots in folder General Topics	1	29	May 6, 2026
Browse button in Restore [KopiaUI] Feature Requests	1	72	May 6, 2026
Help for a win11 refugee :) General Topics	1	47	May 4, 2026
Best Practices for Mac Backups, Cloud Storage Choices, and Folder Selection General Topics	0	20	May 2, 2026
Kopia Forever Initialising General Topics	0	63	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	31	April 29, 2026
Newbie to Kopia - Enjoy it, but need help for the next steps General Topics	4	79	April 28, 2026
Why I keep getting this error? General Topics	0	57	April 28, 2026
Azure Blob Immutability + Kopia = make me stress Support	4	40	April 26, 2026
Only back up when on certain WiFi networks? Support	23	378	April 24, 2026
Progress on restoring files Support	0	61	April 23, 2026
Kopia repository in Backblaze B2 takes up 38.2GB instead of 24.6GB Support	7	1067	April 23, 2026
Production setup with Repository Server and S3, questions and feedback wanted General Topics	6	74	April 20, 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…