If your HA failed, you would restore it from the encrypted backup. I think that PR is a result of people saying they need unencrypted backup to manually copy paste some code from it.
AAAAHHHH WTH?! If i just add unencrypted tar to my usr\share\hassio\backup
Home assistant isnt picking it upā¦
Also deleted a file and it kept showing up in home assistantā¦ so had to add dummy file again with same āslugā id and then remove it from home assistantā¦ 
Is home assistant backup part keeping a local database / json somewhere of the backup files?
Also uploading gives me 413 errorā¦
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i suppose when you create a backup you can downloaded unecrypted tar?
I guess we are all just speculating on commits. Maybe there will be more.
But given the lack of information, what else can we do?
Decisions have been made as people are committing stuffā¦ But no one can tell us what those decisions wereā¦
Iām gonna bite my tongue as the ban hammer was waved,
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It feels like this whole backup thing isnāt even in beta yetā¦ maybe alpha or something.
Bugs and errors and now i cannot restore a prevriously unencrypted backupā¦
Please go back to the drawing board with thisā¦
It actually hasnāt been fully swung, most people stopped when asked. 
Iāve stated more than once that we are still finalizing things. Speculating wonāt help anyone in here.
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Have you ever tried to download the backup through WEB interface of HA?
Itās an interesting experience, especially looking at system resources disappearingā¦
Consideration of uploading/downloading backups through HTTP alone is pure off.
I just can see the next wave of complaints, once we get the option to decrypt backups automaticallyā¦ exclusively for HTTP downloads 
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Nope, I have never tried that 
Anyway, itās just one or two PRs. Nobody said this is all that will happen about the encryption.
Itās clear that the developers are serious about security, even if some think theyāve gone a bit overboard with the encryption, so Iām sure they will provide us with the options we asked for. Hopefully before the end of the month, but if not, Iām sure they should make it into the beta for next month.
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Hope is not a plan.
The problem is yes the planners are serious about security. Unfortunately if youāre not a security person all the time you can often make insecure or inadvisable decisions in the āname ofā security that āseemā better. But itās a big problem and there are entire practices of study around this that a lot of us hang our entire CAREERS on Thus why we tend to be a vocal bunch. And (good) security pros are trained to always point out the flaw.
Nobody seriously thinks it malicious as far as I read. Just decisions (seem to have been) made without either a security or infrastructure architect. Donāt get me wrong I love my developers but developer architects simply do NOT think as security or infrastructure architecture pukes do.
Infrastructure guys are no stop woah while dev is go go go. Which one do you want writing your code? Infra people are notorious progress blockers. We know it. And it leads to these kinds of things.
It happens. However hope is still not a plan. Calm discussion about what happened and why and discussing the reasoning below the decisions on both sides. Iām eager to hear what they came up with.
Sooner rather than later. That part is where I hope.
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Upgrading to the latest version caused all my hacs lovelace addons to break, getting a 404 for js files that absolutely exist. Curling them from their expected urls fails. Only thing that fixed it was rolling back the update from a backup.
After hearing all this about encrypted backups not having opt out (which I donāt want at all) I think Iāll hold off updating for January until the smoke clears.
In case any decision makers actually read this (Iāve contributed to HA before, but the people that make these big decisions are not the rando contributors like me). Encrypt by default is fine, but there needs to be a way to opt out. many people have lost the keys to their million dollars of bitcoin, if that happens then youāre no doubt going to have people lose access to their backups. yes config files can have passwords in them, but if they arenāt encrypted in on the HA system then why do they have to be encrypted in a backup? Thatās like saying trust home assistant but donāt trust yourself. Pop up a āBackups may contain password or other sensitive data and should be treated as suchā so that its not a secret to noobs and then let me decided how to manage my backups.
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Same here, I had to re-download all of my HACS apps, because they were gone. After doing that and a reboot, I was fine. 2025.1.2 is working fine for me now.
And same hereā¦ HACS broken!
Unfortunately, the 2025 update broke my HACS integration and thus all my dashboard efforts! 
Even a deletion of the integration including reboots and deleting the HACS folder did not help.
On my dashboard none of the custom cards are available and thus they show a custom element doesnāt existā¦
Quite frustrating and no clue what to do next. If you know how to deal with this feel free to reach out!
I donāt know why people are seeing custom dashboard cards breaking, but mine still work.
Perhaps telling us your install method, and what cards stopped working will provide some clues.
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I donāt think the HACS problem is linked with the 2025.1 update, since I had it with HA 2024.7
Maybe itās due to the year change.
I already gave a solution in another post:
simply deactivate HCAS, restore an old file config/.storage/hacs.repositories and reactivate HACS.
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I had to redownload all my HACS custom integrationās again, then reboot, that resolved my issues
Are you guys running the latest version of HACS?. There have been 2 updates this year. The version on my system is 2.0.3.
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