Noob, fresh to Kopia :: basic questions about fitment

Hey there. I do IT admin for a small video production house. They have finally put money into new backup gear.

We currently have a single massive NAS (A) hosting about 140 TiB of data. We just got a second NAS (B) waiting to receive backups. We have a 10G-baseT intranet with a W11 and Ubuntu workstation for utility purposes. My goal is to Backup from A to B as quickly as possible to get a complete backup, then move the unit offsite to take bi-monthly updates.

I’ve installed Kopia and I’ve been playing around with it. I did a few tests with a folder that is roughly 150G. Depending on the compression I use I can get that to move at between 09:03 to 11:18. Those both seem a bit slow considering. What’s strange is that on Friday I was able to get the 150G to backup at about 04:05.

I’m brand new to Kopia. I’m using the GUI since I have pretty nasty dyslexia and can get lost if I can’t see what’s happening.

I’d be open to any advice on where to start, what to consider, what settings to evaluate, how to best build my Snapshots (one giant one? a bunch of smaller ones?), and what environmental factors to review. I would love to get these files moving as fast as they can. In the meanwhile, I’m going to browse around and keep testing.

It’s a delightful product. The best one I’ve tested so far.

It would help if you provide some details - nobody can see your screen:)

What is your repository? S3? SFTP? kopia server?

And on the side note. As you control both ends why not to use something like ZFS/BTRFS replication? It will be much faster than any 3rd party software and in addition with less extra layers should be more reliable as well. In addition it can provide you with easy failover options when you can transparently use NAS2 when NAS1 is off etc.

  1. Both NAS units are in house so my repository or destination can be anything I would like! I’m looking for sort of “what would you do?” dream scenarios.

  2. I can’t do ZFS replication since NAS B is running the QNAP operating system on an ARM chip, and I am unable to overwrite it without swapping the chip.