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New to backups

Your first backup app, done properly

KopiaLens backs up your folders on a schedule, keeps every version, and gets any file back when you need it. You don't need to know Kopia to use it.

What a good backup looks like

KopiaLens does all four, and the whole backup app is free.

  • It runs on its own, on a schedule
  • It keeps a copy away from your computer, on a NAS or cloud storage
  • It keeps older versions, so a mistake from last month can be undone
  • You check now and then that files really come back

Getting started

  • Download KopiaLens for Windows, macOS or Linux.
  • Choose where backups go: a drive, a NAS or cloud storage. This becomes your repository.
  • Pick folders and a schedule. KopiaLens backs them up from then on.
  • Restore a file once to see it work.

Words you'll see

  • Repository: the place your backups are stored.
  • Snapshot: one backup of a folder at a moment in time.
  • Policy: the rules for a folder: when it backs up, what it keeps, what it skips.
  • Deduplication: storing repeated data once, so backups stay small.

Free to download. Your first backup takes a few minutes to set up.

Download KopiaLens