I’ve installed Kopia on a Local Administrator account on a Windows computer (I installed specific to this user). The computer has about 6 or 7 other users that log in. I want to be able to backup the C:\Users folder but I’m getting Access Denied errors, which I get, I shouldn’t directly have access to other user folders, but I would like to back them up. What is the best approach here with that? Can I add my user to the Backup Operators group or something like that? What is the best approach.
Sorry if this has been asked before I’m just not seeing anything about this.
I’m no help, but maybe my experience will be of use: After many years of trying to use a single backup program for all the computers in the house, I gave up. I now use Kopia for Linux & Duplicati for Windows. I’m much happier, because everything needs far less handholding.
Thanks. I’ll have to look at that more. This is unfortunate, but I guess Kopia isn’t really geared for data I don’t ‘own’ so it won’t back it up. Seems more user specific.
For Duplicati I’m assuming if I run it as a Windows service this likely should allow me to backup other Windows User folders?
Running Duplicati as a Windows service is popular & well documented. I think you lose some (all?) of the GUI goodness, though. I banged my head against the wall for many years, trying to find that one program that would work on both operating systems well; but it seems that each O/S is too specialized for any single application to work well outside their respective native O/S.
Kopia is the best backup on Linux, and Duplicati is the best on Windows, and they’re both much easier & more reliable on their own systems.
Duplicati to my experience has an architectural issue that the db is stored locally. In my case a Windows machine the hard disk failed and recovery did not work.
Kopia can restore to a new machine without issues as all is stored on remote backup.
Unfortunately the official documentation how to use VSS is outdated. I have tried many of the proposed methods but none have worked for Windows with multiple users.
Maybe someone can update the documentation about the intended way doing this reliably.
