Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding - locking down this thread was a last resort in order to maintain order, but always intended to be temporary this round. Since yesterday was a US holiday, I had to spend some time talking with everyone to ensure I knew where we stood after my last update. I’ll jump into the details for my update, though, with less fluff ahead of it to get to the point for y’all. 
A big caveat to this post is that I have no specific timelines yet
Here is where we are right now:
- We will re-introduce the option to backup on/before update for both core & add-ons.
- We’re going to introduce the ability to customize the time and days your system will backup on.
- We will also introduce an action to allow for any custom schedule and conditional in automations.
- Works in progress:
- We will implement turning off encryption with a per location basis.
- Except for Home Assistant Cloud - we will require it.
- We want to improve filenames to be more easily read and sensible.
- We will implement turning off encryption with a per location basis.
- As of 2025.1.3 - SSL information missing in backups has been fixed.
Lastly, we are approaching the next release - for my side of things this means that this thread will no longer be the appropriate place to leave feedback for this feature. I don’t want to lose y’all’s valuable feedback, so next Wednesday when Beta is live I will be locking down this thread and creating a Beta-specific backup feature thread to continue this conversation. When the next release goes live, we will be able to move the convo further into that blog post’s thread. I will point to those threads in the previous thread’s last comment when this happens - I won’t leave y’all digging for this because I want to have an active convo here but still need to maintain the organization of this forum.
That laid out now, this thread is reopened for discussion. A couple reminders: there is no need to discuss moderator actions on this thread - those are best left to DMs with the moderator and staff teams (review the Code of Conduct if you haven’t while you’re here); let’s keep the topic at the current statuses I mention in this post - I have no information on anything else at this time. Any replies moving forward not following these reminders will be removed without warning - this is the warning.
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