I’m new to and very impressed with Kopia. I’m looking for input on how best o approach this case:
Context: Kopia UI on Docker (on Unraid). Source= Unraid/NAS, Destination= 2 External Hard Drives to be rotated, which show as unique on mount.
Goal: Use 2 external hard drives in rotation to backup the same content, store one off-site, swap on a routine basis. Only 1 drive is connected to Kopia at a time and they get swapped every few weeks.
What setup would best approach this? Some of my discoveries…
- I’m understanding that 1 instance can only have 1 repo, so I can’t expect to setup both HDs
- I tried to setup 2 instances thinking I could just leave each running and thinking the backups would just fail for whatever HD is missing
—Fail - the dockers wouldn’t load if the repo wasn’t present. I was surprised Kopia didn’t manage this scenario as I’d think it common or possible that a destination might be offline.
—Note: I didn’t see a way to Export/Import the config settings, so alot of redundant configuration needed to setup 2 instances. Copying from the original docker didn’t work (wouldn’t load as the repo wasn’t connected). - I may try: See if I can name my HDs the same, copy and paste the initial snapshot data over and then see if swapping HDs works - this doesn’t feel correct to do…
- Looked at Kopia Repo Server - don’t see that helping for this use case
- If Kopia can’t do this, I guess I might try to backup to the NAS and then sync the repo folder to the drives. This not at all ideal (storage space).
- Haven’t explored, but it looks like maybe I can Manually disconnect from 1 repo and then Manually connect to another. Was hoping for something more automatic or graceful.
- Perhaps Kopia can’t do this… move on to another solution.
Hope this makes sense, and thanks for any ideas!