I would like to open a Kopia repository on another machine in my LAN. That machine has a working smb share.
I thought Kopia would offer this by selecting „Local directory or NAS“ as storage type. But I cannot get past the below screen. Whatever I fill in just gives me error messages:
Am I doing it wrong? What path format does Kopia need? Or does „Local directory or NAS“ not mean „smb on another machine“ but smb share mounted in the servers local file system?
(Kopia:latest is running in a docker container in a bridge network.)
Kopia doesn’t support SMB natively and rightly so, I might add… SMB by far the worst choice for a system which is all about small, but many network tranfers. Even if you should decide to mount a SMB share on your client and have Kopia place its repo “locally”, the performance will suck…
Thanks! I can totally live with this, but the Kopia documentaries are misleading. Think this should be clarified:
Local or Network-attached Storage
Kopia allows you to save your snapshots on your local machine, network-attached, or any other readable directory that is attached to your local machine (such as USB device, SMB directory, SSHFS mount, etc.). All of these storages fall under the filesystem label.
It’s mostly a matter of interpretation, if you have an SMB mount in your filesystem at place X, you would give X to kopia, not “the url I would use to bind to the mount”. This goes for NFS and all other network filesystems as well, so if you make an SMB mount at
G: (for windows)
or
/mnt/smb1 (for unices)
then point the repo to those dirs and it will work. It would be “a directory attached to your local machine”, whereas an unmounted SMB link would not be that.
