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	3965	March 25, 2025
Welcome to Kopia User Forum	0	4569	August 20, 2020
Maintenance and snapshot running simultaneously Support	13	131	May 21, 2026
Best Practices for Mac Backups, Cloud Storage Choices, and Folder Selection General Topics	2	43	May 21, 2026
Kopia Repository Server Protocol General Topics	3	60	May 20, 2026
B2 Repository to S3 Support	4	44	May 20, 2026
Which is better: WebDAV or kopia server on remote NAS? Support	18	713	May 20, 2026
How to speed up kopia sync-to? General Topics	5	407	May 20, 2026
Kopia backup HDD spin up General Topics	0	18	May 20, 2026
Kopia server + local repository. Block local restore Support	4	137	May 19, 2026
Exclude all except a folder? Support	1	32	May 18, 2026
Backup 2 Directories to 1 Repo? Support	1	33	May 18, 2026
Choosing File-System for Backup? General Topics	2	55	May 18, 2026
Same files synched from two different OS General Topics	3	33	May 18, 2026
Kopia User interface not starting on Ubuntu 24.04 General Topics	2	31	May 17, 2026
Backup config folder ? Config Symlink ? DeDup? Ghost of excluded data ? File Histroy and Change Track ? Checking backups? Support	24	191	May 14, 2026
Add option for “only include” mode with .kopiainclude Feature Requests	1	34	May 14, 2026
Daily backup schedule using CLI Support	0	22	May 13, 2026
Is it possible to 'un-delete' a snapshot/recover files for an older snapshot from the repo? Support	1	75	May 13, 2026
Diff commond: show files moved instead of remove/added for the file Feature Requests	1	21	May 21, 2026
Kopia ui -- diff General	3	387	May 12, 2026
Kopia-ui is not working after installing update which was shown to me Support	0	37	May 12, 2026
Kopia keeps snapshotting certain shapshots on startup when it shouldn't Support	1	21	May 11, 2026
Objects are "backed by missing blob" - but blobs exist? Support	0	11	May 11, 2026
How to use "kopia repository sync-to from-config"? General Topics	0	23	May 10, 2026
Kopia retention policy visualizer General Topics	0	43	May 10, 2026
Use backup to check integrity of main data? Support	1	40	May 9, 2026
How to have Kopia prompt be to take snapshot when I connect both external disk and backup disk? Support	1	42	May 9, 2026
KopiaUI on Linux - high memory, constant network upload Support	0	30	May 9, 2026
Restore error: finish directory: setting attributes: couldnt change mod time on chtimes The parameter is incorrect Support	0	18	May 9, 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…