I am new to Kopia. Can someone let me know how to launch kopia UI as root on ubuntu 20.04? I am not sure if there is an issue wtih my OS or there is different way to launch it as root.
sudo kopia-ui also shows above error
What about: sudo kopia-ui?
I’m also running Ubuntu 20.04, I only get the “running as root” error with sudo or as root, not the other error. But with --no-sandbox the kopia-ui starts as root.
Instead of running as root, use linux capabilities.
setcap cap_dac_read_search=+ep /usr/bin/kopia
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I found this after trying to get Kopia to back up root folders. The problem is, setting the capability for Kopia isn’t enough; it must be set for Kopia-UI as well. But as soon as you do that, Kopia-UI can’t see libffmpeg.so. Apparently this is by design.
So we’ll need another solution for backing up folders only readable by root.
Try using kopia server instead of kopia-UI. The interface is the same, you just have to have a browser available to use with it, which I’m guessing you do.
It’ll give you the exact same experience, but you’ll be backing up all your root folders no problem!
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Are you saying to run kopia server on the machine you want to backup? I’m trying to do that, but can’t figure that out, can’t find much on running a server from the docs. I have tried unsuccessfully to even start it in that mode.
Yeah.
This is the command I use, and the reason for the full path is because I call it on reboot from Cron so it starts automatically on boot.
/usr/bin/kopia server start --insecure --without-password
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Thanks, that worked.