Kopia, A Backup Taken, Listed And Verified
kopia on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's checksums file, and re-checked by the live test, which creates a filesystem repository, snapshots a directory, lists the snapshot and has kopia verify read every object back, all offline. Pinned; a newer release is a variable change. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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# Kopia, A Backup Taken, Listed And Verified: https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/ansible-kopia (download from your IaC Bazaar account)
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Documentation
kopia
Kopia kopia on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no kopia, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from kopia.io, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. kopia_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs kopia snapshot verify --config-file /tmp/kp/kopia.config --password iacbazaar-probe and expects
"Finished processing" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
A backup, end to end, offline. The live test creates a filesystem
repository with a throwaway password, snapshots a directory into it,
lists the snapshot (the source path and files:1), and has
kopia snapshot verify read every object back: "Finished processing" is
the proof. Remote repositories (S3, GCS, Azure, B2, SFTP, WebDAV, rclone)
take the same commands with a different repository create. The
asset is named linux-x64 on amd64 and linux-arm64 on arm64, which
the architecture map carries; the checksum file is signed (.sig
beside it) and this role checks the SHA-256.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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