# Bug: v0.19.0: Global Policies Cannot Be Used Without A 'repository.config' **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 30, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/bug-v0-19-0-global-policies-cannot-be-used-without-a-repository-config/3927 "2025-04-30T06:28:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![97b4958b055b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/47e85d/32.png) [@97b4958b055b](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/97b4958b055b)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/bug-v0-19-0-global-policies-cannot-be-used-without-a-repository-config/3927/1 "2025-04-30T06:28:20Z")
CLI/AppImage All repositories have a `${HOME}/.config/kopia/$customRepoNameHere.config`. Following [this example](https://kopia.io/docs/faqs/#how-do-i-enable-compression) from the Kopia docs to ensure no interfering ID10T errors, I execute `kopia policy set --global --compression="zstd-better-compression"` Result: ```auto kopia policy set --global --compression="zstd-better-compression" || nowutc ERROR open repository: repository is not connected. See https://kopia.io/docs/repositories/ 20250430T055955UTC ``` However after setting a `repository.config`: ```auto ls -l ${HOME}/.config/kopia/repository.config && \ kopia policy set --global --compression="zstd-better-compression" && nowutc .rw------- 479 user 30 Apr 06:07 /home/user/.config/kopia/repository.config Setting policy for (global) - setting compression algorithm to zstd-better-compression 20250430T060954UTC ``` I restart Kopia. Only 3 of the 4 repos have the defined compression applied & I’m more than sure that’s because I’d already applied them individually to the then 2 of 3 repos yesterday: ```auto kopia policy show --config-file=$conf "${HOME}/sample" | grep Compression && nowutc Compression disabled. 20250430T063344UTC ``` Related: > [@Bug: v0.19.0: CLI/GUI/AppImage: repository.config Over-writes Without Warning](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/bug-v0-19-0-cli-gui-appimage-repository-config-over-writes-without-warning/3899/9): > > So the esteemed minds behind Kopia didn’t bother to write a conditional check against an existing repository.conf and autogen a repository-N.config accordingly. Spectacular. Apparently end users are expected to know beforehand that conf files will be over written unless using --config-file during kopia repo create. I’ve successfully connected three file system repos all under the same volume. Here’s a template: # define conf="$HOME/.config/kopia/fs-000-repo.config" passwd="secret" path="/medi… > [@Bug: v0.19.0: CLI/AppImage: Global Policies Not Applied](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/bug-v0-19-0-cli-appimage-global-policies-not-applied/3900): > > I created a file system repo. I applied my global policies. eg: kopia policy set --config-file="$conf" --global --compression="zstd-better-compression" I restart the appimage. I create another file system repo. I restart the appimage. I close all the Kopia windows puked up on my screen. I check the first file system repo. Applied policies are present. I check the second file system repo. No applied policies are present. I reapply global policies using the --config-file="$conf" of the s… > [@Understanding how Kopia UI manages multiple repositories](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/understanding-how-kopia-ui-manages-multiple-repositories/3185): > > I’m relatively new to Kopia and initially could not understand how the Kopia UI app interfaces with multiple repositories. Eg, in windows, when I right click on the Kopia icon in my taskbar, I was seeing multiple repos listed, some of which it could not connect to. I couldn’t find this documented, but after playing around for a while and reviewing log files, I figured it out & wanted to document my findings. This is based on my testing on the Windows platform: When you start up KopiaUI, it … ---
**Author:** ![alexbarton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/alexbarton/32/1218_2.png) [@alexbarton](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/alexbarton)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/bug-v0-19-0-global-policies-cannot-be-used-without-a-repository-config/3927/2 "2025-05-05T14:26:56Z")
I think you are misguided what “global” in the policy configuration stands for: It means “global for this repository, not bound to any path in particular”. But as the policy is _stored_ in the repository, there is no concept of a “common global policy for all repositories I create”. You have to configure your policies for each individual repository.