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| Original author(s) | Jarek Kowalski |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Jarek Kowalski et al.[1] |
| Initial release | March 2016 |
| Written in | Go |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Backup |
| License | Apache 2.0[2] |
| Website | kopia |
Kopia is a free and open source application for incremental backup available for Windows, macOS, and various Linux distributions.[3] is written in Go, and distributed in both a CLI and GUI versions.
It allows users to create "point-in-time" snapshots of their data, according to a set of policies chosen by the user[4], and to save those snapshots to remote/cloud storage from numerous providers, to network-attached storage, or to local devices[5]. It does not image the whole machine, but allows choosing files and/or directories to backup.
Kopia offers various features such as data compression, encryption (via symmetrical methods such as AES-256 and ChaCha20), error correction to prevent data corruption by faulty hardware, and data deduplication. It also recognizes that moved or renamed files have the same content, avoiding re-uploading.
Performance
[edit]Kopia was benchmarked by Veeam in 2023, and performed significantly better than Restic (a similar, but CLI-only software)[6]. In this test, the time taken to backup 200GiB of data was of about 200 seconds. It also performed far better than the benchmark in backup size (90GB vs 199GB for Restic), and in tests regarding a scenario of a large number of files with very little data.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "LICENSE". Retrieved 27 March 2025 – via GitHub.
- ^ "What is Kopia?".
- ^ "Policies control what and how files/directories are saved in snapshots". Kopia Docs. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ^ "README". GitHub. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ^ Tolia, Niraj. "Benchmarking Kopia: Architecture, scale, and performance". Kasten by Veeam. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2025.