Added Kopia to Backups

[martinge17]

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Why it is awesome

Kopia is a fast and secure way to backup your server, laptop.... It's easy to use either using the CLI, GUI or webUI. The compression and data deduplication helps you save a lot of space.

[martinge17]

Added: Source Code, Clients, License and Language info, as requested.

[nodiscc]

Thanks; this software is relatively new compared to other backup tools in the list, and has not seen a stable release yet (last release named v0.12.1). It's not packaged in major linux distributions yet. So if we keep going by existing contribution guidelines, this should not be included until it's more stable and mature. But contribution guidelines are not very clear, so I invite you to read #357 (comment) and further comments, and voice your opinion there.

I personally would not use this outside experimental setups yet. A backup system is an extremely critical piece of infrastructure. I did a quick ddg/reddit search on Kopia vs other backup systems and the comments I found seem to lead to the same conclusion.

[Technetium1]

Looks good

[cu]

I understand that the maintainers of this repo want to be cautious about adding quality software to the awesome list, and promise not to argue against a decision not to include it. But I just wanted to pop in quickly to cast my vote in support of Kopia.

I have been using Kopia for a few years now to do daily backups of various data directories and can't find anything to indicate that it is less than stable, other than the version number being <1. It's never given me any trouble at all and has saved my butt more than once. It has good docs (not that you'll need them much) and lots of active development/maintenance happening. It doesn't ship with any DEB or RPM-based Linux distro, but can be installed with native package managers via their own third-party repo. It is in the OpenBSD and FreeBSD ports trees.

If I had to pick a red flag, I would say the number of Github issues is higher than I'd like to see, but skimming through them, I feel like most of them are support requests or feature requests that the maintainers haven't bothered to close.

[nodiscc]

Thanks for your input @cu, I think this kind of review is helpful.

maintainers of this repo want to be cautious about adding quality software to the awesome list
promise not to argue against a decision not to include it.

There is no decision yet, as I said in #357 the list is currently in minimal maintenance mode, we should first establish clear guidelines on what is acceptable or not. If you have time, please read the comments there and let us know your opinions, if you have any.

I have been using Kopia for a few years now to do daily backups of various data directories
It's never given me any trouble at all and has saved my butt more than once. It has good docs (not that you'll need them much) and lots of active development/maintenance happening.

This sounds good. Is this in a personal or professional setup? How many machines do you backup? I'm asking this because a "usable in a professional setup/at scale" criteria has been mentioned in #357.

[martinge17]

Thanks; this software is relatively new compared to other backup tools in the list, and has not seen a stable release yet (last release named v0.12.1). It's not packaged in major linux distributions yet. So if we keep going by existing contribution guidelines, this should not be included until it's more stable and mature. But contribution guidelines are not very clear, so I invite you to read #357 (comment) and further comments, and voice your opinion there.

I personally would not use this outside experimental setups yet. A backup system is an extremely critical piece of infrastructure. I did a quick ddg/reddit search on Kopia vs other backup systems and the comments I found seem to lead to the same conclusion.

Hi, I understand the decision since it is a young project. Anyway I would also like to hear @cu experience with Kopia.

[nodiscc]

@cu @martinge17 since we're trying to update contribution guidelines/clarify awesomeness criteria (#357) can you please try to answer the following questions as best you can:

• Have you used it? For how long?
• Is this in a personal or professional setup?
• How many devices/users/services/... do you manage with it?
• Biggest pros/cons compared to other solutions?
• Any other comments about your use case, things you've found excellent, limitations you've encountered... ?

Thanks

[nodiscc]

ping @cu @martinge17

[martinge17]

• Have you used it? For how long?

Yes, I've been using it for 4 months now.

• Is this in a personal or professional setup?

I'm using it to backup my personal Raspberry Pi 4 Homelab/NAS at home.

• How many devices/users/services/... do you manage with it?

I backup the Raspberry drive that contains Docker volumes and Syncthing folders.

• Biggest pros/cons compared to other solutions?

The most direct alternative to Kopia would, in my opinion, be Restic. Both are great pieces of software with very similar features.

Pros of Kopia:
- It has a GUI client for desktop use.
- Mount snapshots (backup) as a local folder.
- Multiple compression algorithms.

Cons of Kopia:
- Maybe it's not as mature as other solutions like Restic.

• Any other comments about your use case, things you've found excellent, limitations you've encountered... ?

I've been using Kopia for 4 months, performing regular backups a few times each week, and I haven't encountered problems. I notice that maybe they don't have as much activity in their git repository as other projects like Restic do.

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