What Happens When I Change Directory of Source Files (or Files to Be Backed Up)?

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Hi, I am wondering how will Kopia handle such changes.

For example, I have a snapshot backing up A:\Photos. Due to say, getting a newer and bigger hard drive, the files are now on F:\Photos and A:\Photos no longer exists

Is there a way to change the snapshot to back up the new directory?

Thanks

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You can just create a new snapshot from F:\Photos and the worst what could happen is, that Kopia locally processes all files again only to know that none of the chunks need to be uploaded to the repo.

I also do think, that you can then move all old snaphots from A: to F: to also save the history (snapshot metadata, actually) and have the history available for the F: target.

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How does the moving of the old snapshots from A: to F: work since the snapshots are still on the same repo and location, while it is only the files to be backed up being moved from A: to F:?

Is it only doable via CLI?

4

Kopia deduplicates already stored content regardless of its source location.

5

I see but will this mean I still have two or more snapshots for the same set of data, just that I need to ignore the old snapshot that is pointing to the old directory?

6

Yes - but they do not occupy any extra space (deduplication).

Up to you entirely. You can delete them, you can keep them.

7

I see, I just didn’t want the interface to be cluttered by the snapshots. Or rather, I will want to be able to organise them so that I won’t accidentally run the legacy ones etc

Is there a way to make them more organised especially in the GUI?