Any workaround for cleartext password in the config file?

General Topics
1

I am new to Kopia and would like to know if there is a workaround for not having to save cleartext AWS secret key in the config file or in the environment variable. I would like to implement it as a backup solution to a client machine where I do not want to expose my AWS secret key.

2

It sounds like you need to use the Kopia repository server. The client would connect to your server, which can then be used to send the backups to AWS.

3

Thanks, while reading about it in Repository Server | Kopia it states that it should be in LAN that all clients can connect to. In my case the clients are different machines on web.

4

I don’t see that as a hard requirement, as long as they can talk network to eachother, the distances don’t matter.

1 Like