Restoring Kopia itself

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Hi,

I’ve been looking around on the forums and searching the internet for an answer for this but couldn’t really find anything that answers it completely.

I’m backing up a lot of data using Kopia towards S3 storage. This is done for my 3-2-1 backup and is my only off-site storage.

My question then, if for some reason the original server from which the snapshots are ran would be gone. What do I need to restore kopia on a new machine and get my data restored decrypted from S3?
Do I backup the repository.config somewhere safe of do I need more stuff?

This data is too important for me to just assume I can restore only to find out I cannot.

Thanks in advance!

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I’m still new so not an expert but I was wondering too about this.

I used one of my alternative computers (Windows)

  • downloaded Kopia
  • used my S3 credentials and kopia password (no problem connecting)
  • didn’t see any snapshots until I realized I had to use the dropdown to change from local snapshots to snapshots stored under the original computer name

All my backup snapshots were there ready to restore.

HTH