Hey guys, i have searched the thread and not found a solution.
When i want to extract a encrypted backup archive, how can i archive that?
Is there a decryption tool?
thx
Either I donāt understand the meaning of search, or I donāt understand your question. Decryption was discussed in posts #41, 65, 103, 134, 156, 185, 225, 227, 240, 243, 253, 306, 323, 361, 365, 414, 471, 486 ā¦ I could go on, but you get the point?
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totally agreeā¦
also could make a default disabled auto backup option (because of running out of space?! seriously?) (wich you could enable by a settings or something)
whole backup thing now is working not goodā¦
try delete a backed up fileā¦ its still being there in home assistant as a backup. But you cant remove it becease file is goneā¦
Restore unencrypted by uploading also not workingā¦
Yeah but no solution up until now!
Or did i missed it?
You missed it.
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See the below post:
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For future reference:
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It wasnāt āprematurelyā closed. It was closed when the work was completed. Thereās no obligation to keep the PR open after the work is done.
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Since Home Assistantās inception, Paulus has always had final say in all matters. Opposing views were aired and a decision was made.
If you disagree with this age-old arrangement, you are free to petition for changes (by starting a topic in the community forum, not in Github).
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TBH he cannot been serious unless disconnected from reality.
If running out of space is the problem, the solution should be backup file retention. Not removal of the widely used backup feature.
Then I mention it again: backups should be located on a separate volume than the main system (to secure system stability in case backups eat all space).
For me, the only reason for auto-update removal was to fill the gap in achieving the goal: āall backups must be encrypted for any costā. Then his answer was made up just to close users mouths.
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Has anyone already tested whether the automatic backups with the āgreat new backup systemā are recognized and listed after decryption by HA and can then be used immediately for a possible recovery?
If so, it would be great if someone with more knowledge could package the decryption tool as an add-on for HA that automatically decrypts all the backups that HA createdā¦
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As for me, I will only change version if the google drive option is definedā¦
No 
Restoring an unecnrypted backup is not possible
Unless json in backup is also modified and changed etcā¦
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OMG. I didnāt know that. Thank you for the tip. Itās getting worse and worse 
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Yes, Iām commenting on this very answer.
If auto-backup was causing piles of backup files stored infinitely (hence running out of space), then auto-backup should be responsible for the removal of older backups (backup retention). It shouldnāt be a big deal to implement that, should it?
Also, this auto backup was always triggered by user action. So what is the deal to inform a user that space on disk is running out?
There are dozens of ways how to cope with backups that make disks run out of space issue. This is why I donāt believe the reasoning he provided. It just doesnāt make sense.
Itās like: HA causes a lot of problems to thousands of users, thus letās close the project.
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The world has searched for sustainable resourcesā¦ nuclear fusionā¦ the perpetual motion machineā¦
This thread is the perpetual motion machine of HA.
It will outlive us allā¦ the Earthā¦ the sun.
Itāll be on the menu at The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe as reading material in between courses.
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thx a lot for this!!!
I have added the support for extracting the whole .tar and decrypting all .tar.gz files in it in batch.
Here is the PR: Support extracting of .tar & decrypt multiple .tar.gz files by popy2k14 Ā· Pull Request #1 Ā· sdotter/ha-backup-decrypt Ā· GitHub
My branch in my fork: GitHub - popy2k14/ha-backup-decrypt at popy2k14-multi-extract-decrypt
And compiled one for Windows here: ha-backup-decrypt/bin/Debug/net8.0 at popy2k14-multi-extract-decrypt-with-binarys Ā· popy2k14/ha-backup-decrypt Ā· GitHub
Usage is:
Usage: ha-backup-decrypt <input> <output> <key>
<input> encypted single tar.gz file or complete .tar backup with multiple encrypted tar.gz files
<output> output filename or destination directory
Have fun
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Sorry, but this is what we are asking everyone to be patient on. Which is why I said:
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I want to thank everyone for the feedback so far, however it seems this thread has started to circle the same topics again with no net gain for the situation.
With that being said, the thread will be closing until Tuesday next week. It is a US holiday on Monday, so Missy will not return to work until Tuesday morning. Missy will be reopening the thread when she has the information everyone is seeking. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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