Kopia: The Backup Tool That Deduplicates Everything

Tue, 21 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

I ran Restic for two years before I looked seriously at Kopia, and the thing that finally moved me was not a benchmark, it was a support ticket I never had to write. A snapshot policy had quietly evolved over months — different retention on different machines, different exclude lists nobody remembered setting — and when I went looking for what was actually configured, Restic had no answer beyond “whatever flags you happened to type last time.” Kopia keeps that configuration as a first-class, inspectable object. That single difference changed how I think about backup tooling: the policy is the product, not the command line.

Deduplication - vo.rs

Kopia: The Backup Tool That Deduplicates Everything