Server with remote storage

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Hello,

I am considering using Kopia, and I was wondering if it is possible or planned for the server to use a remote storage. The background is that the server adds interesting features, but root servers with terabytes of capacity are expensive.The idea is to use a lightweight (and cheap) virtual machine to run the server, and use a commercial storage for the data.
Obviously, this would not be very efficient, since the data is transferred twice. Is that even technically feasible or reasonable?

Cheers,
Olivier

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Kopia supports a few remote storage providers natively plus a lot more through rclone. I’m personally using a Kopia server with S3 backend, and it’s working well.

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Thank you dimejo, but these are the storage types supported by the client. The server supports only local paths as far as I can see. Here is the documentation: Repository Server | Kopia (but it does not cover the storage topic specifically).

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It is the same. Just connect to the repository as usual and then start the server.

kopia repository connect s3 --endpoint=[...] --bucket=[...]--access-key=[...] --secret-access-key=[...]
kopia server start --tls-cert-file /path/to/cert --tls-key-file /path/to/key --address :50505
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