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> Kopia does not currently support cloud storage that provides delayed access to your files – namely, archive storage such as Amazon Glacier Deep Archive. Do not try it; things will break. Sigh… and unfortunately all too common for there to be no cold storage support.
Any 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…
The state of backup tech is surprisingly bad, and runs OS deep. Even with modern solutions like restic, you have no guarantee of a consistent backup[0] unless you pair it with a filesystem that supports snapshots like btrfs, ZFS, etc, which basically no one other than power users are even aware of. Interestingly, Windows ships snapshot support by default[1], but you need admin privileges to use it. Also, it's unclear…
CTRL+F "tape" "lto" - 0 results. I know that Tape Backups are not hip and sexy, but CloudNordic showed us just last month why they still matter even in 2023 and beyond, so you'd definitely want to look at an additional solution for your large servers, with a proper rotation/retention strategy (e.g., GFS). You _need_ offline backups, if you think you don't, you just got lucky for now - or have data that can be recreat…
The state of backup tech is surprisingly bad, and runs OS deep. Even with modern solutions like restic, you have no guarantee of a consistent backup[0] unless you pair it with a filesystem that supports snapshots like btrfs, ZFS, etc, which basically no one other than power users are even aware of. Interestingly, Windows ships snapshot support by default[1], but you need admin privileges to use it. Also, it's unclear…
Filesystem snapshot for database is not different than database crash. Databases are designed to handle crashes well (WAL etc.).
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
Why not just use rclone?
Compared to Veeam how is it?
Note that Veeam contributes to Kopia - https://www.veeam.com/sys451