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Last active February 25, 2025 04:03
Kopia as Windows Service

Pre-requisites:

  1. Install Kopia. In this example, I have installed KopiaUI to C:\Program Files\KopiaUI.
  2. Download Shawl from https://github.com/mtkennerly/shawl.
  3. Place shawl.exe in a suitable directory. In this example, shawl was placed to C:\Program Files\Shawl\shawl.exe.
  4. Create a directory to store Kopia data files. In this example, we are using C:\ProgramData\kopia

First, we will set up Kopia and check that it's working as a regular application:

  1. Create a htpasswd file, with a user called kopia and a secure password. Place the file in C:\ProgramData\kopia\htpasswd.