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NOTE: This page is under development. Feel free to contribute as you see fit.
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What is a Snapshot?
A snapshot is a point-in-time backup of your files/directories; each snapshot contains the files/directories that you can restore when you need to.
What is a Repository?
A repository is the storage location where your snapshots are saved; Kopia supports cloud/remote, network, and local storage locations and all repositories are encrypted with a passphrase that you designate.
See the repository help docs for more information.
What is a Policy?
A policy is a set of rules that tells Kopia how to create/manage snapshots; this includes features such as compression, snapshot retention, and scheduling when to take automatically snapshots.
How to Restore Files/Directories?
Files/directories are restored from the snapshots you create. To restore the data you backed up in a snapshot, Kopia gives you three options:
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mount the contents of a snapshot as a local disk so that you can browse and copy files/directories from the snapshot as if the snapshot is a local directory on your machine;
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restore all files/directories contained in a snapshot to any local or network location that you designate;
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or selectively restore individual files from a snapshot.
The Getting Started Guide provides directions on how to restore files/directions when using Kopia GUI and when using Kopia CLI.
What is a Kopia Repository Server?
See the Kopia Repository Server help docs for more information.