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
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoDepends. 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
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
How did you ibstall kopia? What system are you on?
selfmate@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s a fedora server.
according to kopia’s repo, there is no official systemd service github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/2685 and there is none on my system.
in the past week, it did not backup anything. Hence, there is no scheduler built into kopia automagically as described/ hinted in the docs.
I just wrote a systemd service and timer and I’ll see if it works. I’m not the best in using systemd. I dislike it, I like cron for it’s simplicity.
Even if it works then, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone because info about the scheduler is rare and the docs do not even cover the topic.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Sorry, I must’ve misremembered about systemd. It’s how my installs start up, and the unit file is not in the usual location for systemd units I’ve created myself, so my assumption is it came with Kopia. There is no systemd timer though, and one isn’t needed.
in the past week, it did not backup anything. Hence, there is no scheduler built into kopia automagically as described/ hinted in the docs.
Was Kopia running during that time?
If you run Kopia commands, then it will perform the instructed task, and then exit. It will obviously not do anything after completing whatever command was given, as the process will have exited, leaving no kopia process running on the system.
Starting it up in in server mode
kopia server starthowever, which is what you do to have it running as a background daemon. When running, it allows you to log into the web interface or configure it via cli to do whatever you like. And as long as the process starts along with the host system, that’s all there is to it.How the daemon is set up to start, doesn’t really matter. And if you want to use your own scheduling, (cron or a systemd timer) you can do that, too.
selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thank you!