Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
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Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#2I've been using Kopia for about a year to backup sensitive data multiple times a day into an off-site encrypted storage and it's worked like a charm so far.
The presence of a WebUI is so nice compared to CLI-only tools.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#3Hm interesting name, I spent a few seconds on the site to figure out origin but no luck.
"Kopia" means "copy" in Swedish and probably more Nordic languages, too. Very hard to pronounce in English so it would be interesting to hear it said.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#4Any comparisons to Restic? Looks like basically the same thing but with a GUI available.
Edit: Found this very ad-hoc "benchmark" from over a year ago claiming that Kopia managed significantly better deduplication than Restic after several backups (what took Restic 2.2GB, Kopia did in https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1809#issuecomment-1067...
Edit Edit: Never mind, this benchmark was from before Restic supported compression, which is the why its size is so much larger. Feels like that should have been mentioned.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#5Any comparisons to Restic? Looks like basically the same thing but with a GUI available. Edit: Found this very ad-hoc "benchmark" from over a year ago claiming that Kopia managed significantly better deduplication than Restic after several backups (what took Restic 2.2GB, Kopia did in https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1809#issuecomment-1067... Edit Edit: Never mind, this benchmark was from before Restic supported…
Restic only (relatively) recently implemented compression so I'd run my own tests before making a decision. I'm currently thinking about migrating off borg to restic and disk space usage is very similar based on my testing.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#6I was using Vorta/Borgbase until I discovered that Vorta had an issue with restores. Kopia is pretty neat, but make sure you test as always.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#7Any comparisons to Restic? Looks like basically the same thing but with a GUI available. Edit: Found this very ad-hoc "benchmark" from over a year ago claiming that Kopia managed significantly better deduplication than Restic after several backups (what took Restic 2.2GB, Kopia did in https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1809#issuecomment-1067... Edit Edit: Never mind, this benchmark was from before Restic supported…
UX is very important for backups (considering that users can be very lazy, so the least friction, the better), so a GUI is an important component; those who don't care about UX surely have infinite ways to perform their backups.
My dealbreaker with Restic was near-realtime backup - the discussion has been open for 5 years now: https://forum.restic.net/t/continuous-backup/593); this is also a UX problem. I haven't checked if Kopia supports it (or has better support, anyway), though.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#8Hm interesting name, I spent a few seconds on the site to figure out origin but no luck. "Kopia" means "copy" in Swedish and probably more Nordic languages, too. Very hard to pronounce in English so it would be interesting to hear it said.
Also in Polish and other Slavic languages probably, too.
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#9Hm interesting name, I spent a few seconds on the site to figure out origin but no luck. "Kopia" means "copy" in Swedish and probably more Nordic languages, too. Very hard to pronounce in English so it would be interesting to hear it said.
Kopia also means a copy in Polish and the author is Polish. The first paragraph in the software's Github page also confirms the Polish origin of the name: https://github.com/kopia/kopia/
Tangentially, as far as OSS names of Polish go, kopia is pretty tame. A popular deduplicating app is named czkawka (hiccup). Now that choice is just mean towards non-Polish speakers. :)
Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
#10Hm interesting name, I spent a few seconds on the site to figure out origin but no luck. "Kopia" means "copy" in Swedish and probably more Nordic languages, too. Very hard to pronounce in English so it would be interesting to hear it said.
Also in Polish and other Slavic languages probably, too.
Ah, just noticed. The founder is Polish. That explains the name.
As a Pole, I actually greatly appreciate these Slavic names in tech.