# Restoring Kopia itself

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/restoring-kopia-itself/2229>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/restoring-kopia-itself/2229 "2023-08-25T10:05:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrPlague](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DrPlague](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/DrPlague)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/restoring-kopia-itself/2229/1 "2023-08-25T10:05:54Z")

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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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**Author:** ![JayDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@JayDee](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/JayDee)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/restoring-kopia-itself/2229/2 "2023-08-25T16:25:21Z")

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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