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Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by j1elo »

unwind wrote: post #3

Hm 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.

My first impression was that it could have also been spanish "Copia" (copy), but built for KDE (thus following the naming trend of those apps)

Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by vladgur »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #20
trwired wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :)

Oh my, this is a fantastic view of life - from the czkawka github page: Czkawka is a Polish word which means hiccup. I chose this name because I wanted to hear people speaking other languages pronounce it, so feel free to spell it the way you want. This name is not as bad as it seems, because I was also thinking about using words like żółć, gżegżółka or żołądź

I had to google pronounciation of czkawka and to me it sounds exactly how i would pronounce it - chkavka or чкавка in Russian

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/czkawka

Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by viciousvoxel »

vladgur wrote: post #23

Im curious if its able to use NAS Storage or a combination of offline/online storage I got a Synology in my house that could be utilized

Yes, it can. If your Synology model can run docker, running a minio instance is a good option.

https://kopia.io/docs/repositories/

Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by candiddevmike »

haunter wrote: post #18

Love the asciinema demo. More projects should use it. Sometimes I have the urge to make a pull request on Github projects without any screenshot or video.

I personally don't see the point of CLI videos like asciinema, just let me scroll through the damn CLI history.

Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by x0x0 »

ntolia wrote: post #16

I've been using Kopia for my personal use and for products I have helped build at a couple of enterprise backup companies! It's also used by other open-source backup projects that focus on specific ecosystems (Velero and Kanister for Kubernetes, Corso for Microsoft 365 backup). I am obviously biased but it's pretty amazing. AMA.

Can you compare vs eg Duplicati?

Do you (sorry, but just checking) repeatedly test backups? Eg pull monthly and bit verify that they're correct? Are you aware of anyone testing in this way?

Thanks so much!

Re: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

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Post by justin_oaks »

I use Restic for personal backups and at work, but I thought I'd try Kopia to see if it'd be a good fit for my less techie relatives. This was about a year ago.

The UI didn't seem like a good fit for those who are less technical. I don't remember the specifics.

Does anyone have recommendations for backup services for the average user?

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