Some thoughts about kopia

General
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Some days ago I learned about kopia and started to use it to get some experience…

My first impressions

  • Very good design. Congratulations to Jarek.
  • The policy setting via kopia policy is great
  • An outstanding feature is that kopia takes care about the policy on the fly!
  • Compression is important as it saves a lot of disk space. This is where restic lacks.
  • It seems that I could have running multiple snapshots the same time and no corruption. Please correct me if this is wrong

I am still learning…

Thank you, Jarek.

–
Manfred

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Yes. Kopia is designed to support multiple repository users without locking and there should be no corruption. There could be still bugs there, but a number of folks have been running in this way for some time.

Thanks for all the other comments.

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Thanks for the conformation. Actually, I do not plan to run kopia concurrently much. But it could happen in some situations.In my case the user would be the same in such a situation.

4

Restic now has compression.

5

But restic does not have a GUI :smiley:

6

Look at Relica

https://relicabackup.com/

7

Is Relica still in active development? I was under the impression that it has been abondoned and later sold.

8

Links to that statement?

9

The link to microacquire.com is no longer valid but you can draw your own conclusions with this link and the activity on https://twitter.com/relicabackup.

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Thanks for the info. Good to know.
I hope a big company buys them and grows it even more.
As for me, I’m perfectly fine with Restic’s CLI.
It’s just plain simply. No GUI needed.