Kopia Server: handle multiple repos

Feature Requests
1

Currently, Kopia Server always seems to read the local config file it has been given at startup, be it either the default config in

~/.config/kopia/repository.config

or the config file given with --config.file. Being able to pass a repo identifier with the connection parameters, would enable Kopia to select one of multiple repos on the Kopia server. It really bothers me a bit, that you can’t see what repo you’re actually connected to when connecting with Kopia to a Kopia server. It could very well be, that someone on that server just started another instance of Kopia and thus the default config changed.

2

Kopia server is meant to handle single repository - if you need multiple repos, start multiple copies of kopia server or use something like Kopia UI.

BTW. I have a feature in-flight to give each repository a nickname.

See the demo at:

3

Yeah, thought so. Maybe there will be some improvements in the future, but as of now, I am okay with setting up several instances of kopia server on my backup node. Regarding the use of KopiaUI - does is save all the different repos in the same comfig file? This surely seems not to be implemented in the current version of Kopia (CLI).

4

There’s always one config per repository - KopiaUI will just load them all and launch one server per config.

5

So, KopiaUI will load all *.config files from ~/.config/kopia ?

6

In the new version - yes. The old one has N more config files, making it unnecessarily complex.

7

BTW The new KopiaUI builds are available for download at:

https://github.com/kopia/kopia-ui-release/releases/tag/20200724.0.82316

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Is this a planned feature for Kopia Server? Seems to be the only thing UI has that server doesn’t.