Connect Kopia UI to SFTP

[skotty]

I have managed to setup Kopia UI on my Windows 11 laptop but would like to use SFTP as repository but I’m stuck on Known hosts data?.
Where do I get this information?
Do I need to make a connection with Kopia CLI to get the known hosts data?

[dimejo]

This post might help:

KopiaUI + SFTP is not Windows friendly

It’s an old thread, but since I came across this while looking for something else, I may as well give a workaround for this one. At least there may be others on Windows who may benefit from this. OpenSSH has been part of Windows installation at least since Windows 10. So, you can basically make an ssh connection to your host from the command prompt: ssh username@example.com. Immediately after that you will be asked something like: The authenticity of host 'example.com (93.184.216.34)' can't be…

[skotty]

Perfect solution! Thank you very much. For older versions of Windows I can also recommend using cygwin.
Install cygwin and do a ssh connection with it. It will create a known_hosts file in /home/$username$/.ssh/ and just copy/paste the info from that file.