I can’t find anything related to systemd or cron. Does it have its own scheduler? I already set policies. I’m just wondering if I forgot something to setup.
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoThe main advantages of Kopia, are speed and destination flexibility.
The off-site storage does not need to have Kopia installed. It can be a mounted network location, an FTP server. Whatever. A generic cloud storage bucket like Backblaze B2.
That’s why just a router with and external drive hooked up is able to suffice.
For all of these, you can connect multiple Kopia instances to that same destination, and each client can browse backups, restore from them, and backup their own files to the destination.
With borg, you need something like a Pi that can have borg installed. (You can also do this with Kopia, in which case the Kopia instance on the destination device is also able to manage the backups).
Kopia also beats borg and restic in speed. My daily backups typically complete within a minute or two. I used to use Duplicati, with which it was common for it to take up to an hour. When it started regularly taking more than an hour, I switched to Kopia.
selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Depends. If you are running it as a service that starts with the system (
sudo sysemctl enable kopia) then yes, it will use it’s own scheduler.selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thank you!
selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I couldn’t find a systemd unit or service.
Kopia will then automatically begin taking the snapshot following the settings you set for the policy. link
I’m not yet sure about that
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
How did you ibstall kopia? What system are you on?
selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
thanks! I installed it and created my first backup. I’ll test it and see how it goes. It looks good. Thank you!