Snapshot frequency beyond every 24 hours

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1

In the KopiaUI Policy tab, I see the option for Snapshop Frequency goes up to Every 12 Hours, or I can go with Times of Day for every 24 hours.

Is there a way to tell Kopia to do a snapshot every other day?

Much thanks

2

Hi,

some people are using the command line to run their backups. By doing this, you are free to schedule your backups. In the UI, you can only schedule using predefined times. I think, we may need to implement a more user-friendly scheduling for snapshots.

Cheers,

3

inability to issue custom time for snapshots is still a problem when using UI, any chance that will ever be fixed?

4

Have you tried using Cron Expressions in the Scheduling part KopiaUI?

5

yes. Its extremely convoluted and user-unfriendly.
I wasn’t able to set 1.5h interval by myself, and it turned out it was impossible with just one expression, you need to combine two to get that.
I also don’t know a single person IRL who even knows what a cron expression is.

6

This is what google is for:)

I recommend this site:

for testing your crontab expressions.

7

The issue is that you should not need to do that.
If you just need a single interval and nothing else, there is no need for cron expressions at all.

The program had a perfectly functioning and easy way to set the snapshot frequency, any it was for some reason removed.

Making your program harder to use is regression.