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	3778	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum	0	4525	August 20, 2020
Too many levels of symbolic links Support	5	352	March 10, 2026
Snapshot suitable for media files? Space issues General Topics	2	26	March 9, 2026
Reopen previously created repositories General	1	24	March 5, 2026
Fetching data from another machine Support	3	31	March 4, 2026
Port exhaustion issues Support	3	318	March 3, 2026
Local backup of remote server Support	2	32	March 3, 2026
Change drive letter of a USB local repository Support	0	24	February 28, 2026
How to fix missing blobs? Support	15	525	February 27, 2026
KopiaUI as a service in windows? Feature Requests	9	2328	February 26, 2026
How to avoid kopia repo password in docker compose file? General Topics	1	85	February 25, 2026
Hetzner storage box: best practise General Topics	0	59	February 25, 2026
Connect via CLI use via GUI General Topics	0	25	February 24, 2026
SFTP reconnect fails when local adapter changes General	1	388	February 22, 2026
Kopia UI can't open a repository anymore Support	5	148	February 16, 2026
Cleaning Kopia validate-provider leftovers Support	0	16	February 12, 2026
Full maintenance error "error rewriting contents in short packs: failed to rewrite 348 contents" General Topics	6	86	February 12, 2026
SFTP blob creation fails with "Operation unsupported" on initial setup Support	0	22	February 12, 2026
Snapshot skipping files Support	1	57	February 2, 2026
Is this forum unmoderated? General Topics	0	120	January 24, 2026
Kopia repo server through cloudflare tunnel General Topics	0	45	January 23, 2026
Help with very first snapshot General Topics	3	76	January 21, 2026
Tip: Generating missing/corrupted blobs General Topics	0	75	January 21, 2026
WebDAV backend on Windows stores cleartext password; rclone encrypted config works but Kopia repo stores plaintext Support	1	44	January 20, 2026
Inconsistent weekly retentions General Topics	6	85	January 18, 2026
Long term archive General Topics	2	90	January 16, 2026
Snapshot size estimates are way too high Support	4	375	January 13, 2026
Browse button in Restore [KopiaUI] Feature Requests	0	43	January 10, 2026
How to actually utilize Kopia error correction? General Topics	0	70	January 7, 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…