Can I select more than one file/folders to create a snapshot or backup set and apply policy on it?

Ah, I am not really sure how it can work.

I also saw this post Multiple directories where it’s essentially mentioned it just can’t work (maybe by design? i.e. that’s not a use case).

Currently there is not a better way and because of how Kopia identifies snapshots and policies (by their root path) that would be quite hard to do.

I guess I will eagerly watch Kopia and see if in feature there is an easy way to simply tell Kopia:

  • Backup these paths → backup set
  • Ignore these kind of patterns/extensions etc when you encounter in the backup set paths.

That’s it. something like how Borg and Restic does it if I may say so.

I simply couldn’t wrap my head around how to do the “include” by using the exclude syntax (the git ignore thingie). And I guess it’s my inability to grok it.

Or maybe that’s the whole point of Kopia - just set one path when trying to create Snapshot and the ignore file (or the policy folder where I guess there has to be a .kopiaignore file maybe? And maybe some policy file as well somewhere?) will ignore whatever are to be ignored in that path.

I didn’t get much from it. Anyway, maybe I will try again after KopiaUI 1.0 or a bit later.

Thanks for the backup app however.