Hello,
I’ve been using Kopia to backup an external hard drive for a while now, and it works well. However, I had to move the disk to a new machine. I’ve been able to connect the existing repository, but on the new machine, but I had mount it as a different drive letter, so that part of the source path is going to change. From what I read, the drive letter is part of the unique identity, so if I just create a new policy for the disk in the new location, it’s going to re-upload the entire thing? Is it possible for me attach to the existing backup, or will I have to re-do the entire backup?
I’m connecting as the same user/host, but I am starting to think that it might be better to connect as a different user/host so that it gets treated as a shared repository and de-dupe prevents the entire re-upload? Although it sounds like de-dupe might prevent that from happening anyway? Or am I better off just de-running the entire backup? If I do re-do the entire backup, should I just delete the existing repository and create a new one so I’m starting with a fresh disk(the repo is located on a 2nd disk of the same capacity to act as an encrypted mirror/backup).
I don’t care about the drive letter, it’s an extra data disk, I only care about the relative paths starting from the root directory.
Thank you!