KOPIA not seeing snapshots in folder

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New to Kopia but not to backups
I posted what I am seeing. Snapshots are being taken but doesn’t look like any capacity is being taken up as shown below

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As you can see I have nothing in my repository. Also kopia list doesn’t seem to work

From the CLI I am getting this:PS C:\Users\okieu> kopia snapshot list all
okieu@brutus:C:
2026-05-06 01:59:05 PDT error reading directory: entry not found
2026-05-06 01:59:05 PDT error reading directory: entry not found
2026-05-06 01:59:05 PDT error reading directory: entry not found
PS C:\Users\okieu>

PS C:\Users\okieu> dir E:\Kopia-bu\Repository
PS C:\Users\okieu>

As you can see I am not seeing anything

Any ideas.

Phillip

2

I wrote a powershell script which seems to have resolved the issue for now.
But I brought up the GUI and did NOT contained what was kicked off in the powershell script.
Is there a reason why the CLI and GUI not intergrated together? That what it seems like to me.

BTW, I left out OS details I was backing up Windows 11 Pro.
Below is the powershell script.

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Kopia Backup Script (Fixed Compatibility)

================================

$SourceUser = $env:USERPROFILE
$RepoPath = “E:\Kopia-bu”
$LogFile = “E:\Kopia-bu\backup.log”
$KopiaExe = “kopia”

---- CONNECT (USES CACHED CREDENTIALS) ----

Write-Host “Connecting to Kopia repository…” -ForegroundColor Yellow

& $KopiaExe repository connect filesystem --path $RepoPath
–log-file $LogFile

if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
Write-Host “ERROR: Repository connection failed.” -ForegroundColor Red
exit 1
}

---- FUNCTION ----

function Backup-Path {
param ([string]$Path)

if (Test-Path $Path) {
    Write-Host "Backing up $Path..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

    & $KopiaExe snapshot create $Path `
        --log-file $LogFile

    if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
        Write-Host "FAILED: $Path" -ForegroundColor Red
    }
}

}

---- USER DATA ----

$UserFolders = @(
“Desktop”,
“Documents”,
“Pictures”,
“Videos”,
“Music”,
“Favorites”
)

foreach ($folder in $UserFolders) {
Backup-Path -Path (Join-Path $SourceUser $folder)
}

---- APPDATA ----

Backup-Path “$SourceUser\AppData\Roaming”
Backup-Path “$SourceUser\AppData\Local\Packages”

---- SSH ----

Backup-Path “$SourceUser.ssh”

---- POWERSHELL CONFIG ----

Backup-Path “$SourceUser\Documents\PowerShell”

---- CUSTOM PATHS ----

@(
“C:\Scripts”,
“C:\Repos”,
“C:\Tools”
) | ForEach-Object {
Backup-Path $_
}

---- VERIFY ----

& $KopiaExe snapshot list --log-file $LogFile

Write-Host “Backup process finished (check errors above).” -ForegroundColor Green

============ End of Powershell script =====================