Kopia is a quick and safe open-source backup/restore device that permits you to create encrypted snapshots of your information and save the snapshots to distant or cloud storage of your alternative, to network-attached storage or server, or domestically in your machine. Kopia doesn’t ‘picture’ your entire machine. Fairly, Kopia permits you to backup/restore any and all information/directories that you just deem essential or vital.
Kopia has each CLI (command-line interface) and GUI (graphical consumer interface) variations, making it the right device for each superior and common customers. You’ll be able to learn extra about Kopia’s distinctive options — which embrace compression, deduplication, end-to-end ‘zero data’ encryption, and error correction — to get a greater understanding of how Kopia works.
When prepared, head to the set up web page to obtain and set up Kopia, and ensure to learn the Getting Began Information for a step-by-step walkthrough of how one can use Kopia.
Decide the Cloud Storage Supplier You Need
Kopia helps saving your encrypted and compressed snapshots to all the following storage places:
- Amazon S3 and any cloud storage that’s suitable with S3
- Azure Blob Storage
- Backblaze B2
- Google Cloud Storage
- Any distant server or cloud storage that helps WebDAV
- Any distant server or cloud storage that helps SFTP
- A number of the cloud storage choices supported by Rclone
- Requires you to obtain and setup Rclone along with Kopia, however after that Kopia manages/runs Rclone for you
- Rclone help is experimental: not all of the cloud storage merchandise supported by Rclone have been examined to work with Kopia, and a few might not work with Kopia; Kopia has been examined to work with Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive by Rclone
- Your native machine and any network-attached storage or server
- Your individual server by organising a Kopia Repository Server
And Kopia makes use of information deduplication to avoid wasting you cash! Learn the repositories assist web page for extra data on supported storage places.
With Kopia you’re in full management of the place to retailer your snapshots; you decide the cloud storage you need to use. Kopia performs no position in deciding on your storage places. You should provision and pay (the storage supplier) for no matter storage places you need to use, after which inform Kopia what these storage places are. The benefit of decoupling the software program (i.e., Kopia) from storage is that you should utilize no matter storage places you need -– it makes no distinction to Kopia what storage you employ. You’ll be able to even use a number of storage places if you wish to, and Kopia additionally helps backing up a number of machines to the identical storage location.
Kopia in Motion
Utilizing Kopia by way of command-line interface:
