Exactly, there are still alternative backup options. At least at the moment. But you can also read the release notes about this from a negative perspective 
No worries, if you are using any custom solution for backups, they will continue to work today. Even with everything new, we’ve made sure to keep everything backward compatible.
Correct, i’m a bit worried about this word “today”, too. I hope that this doesn’t mean that once all of the sudden a small hidden message will appear in HA logs “warning: this function will not work anymore in 2025.x”…
Prior to 2025.1.x whenever we had add-on needing a backup (e.g. those setup in addons, so included custom ones like z2m, and clearly excluding any HACS updates), we would get a prompt on the update page to backup that addon prior to updating.
Now (with 2025.1.1) there is no prompt, no option to backup the addon on the update page, and it does not automatically do it in the background.
How do I re-enable this, or is this a planned change, to make us go to this new backup page, every time we have an update?
This was so useful to have defaulted on, for those times we needed to roll back an update that was not working on our systems.
100% gone and 100% developer decision.
If that is the case, I don’t get the logic behind it, and would love to hear the reasoning behind the change.
Rather than remove the option, just show a prompt if space is an issue.
I have now just spotted it’s now present via addons page (don’t recall it being there before) and if new, that then suffers the same issue as the update panel previously had so people would not know if their disk was filling up.
So that looks like they moved the problem vs finding a fix.
I’m with you up to this point. Of course I’m a big enough boy to figure out a way to make an unencrypted backup, even if it is now more complicated than just un-checking a box. And that’s what I’ll do once I install 2025.1.x in a couple of weeks.
But what’s being said by the dev team, and more important, what’s not being said, makes me wonder how long these options will remain available.
Reading between the lines, it looks like the goal is to put the entire backup process in a “black box” which is invisible to the user, with no option to choose unencrypted files.
All those add-ons, commands and actions use built-in HA backup functionality. How long will the “unencrypted” option remain available in those? I keep reading about a “road map” and seeing things which imply these decisions have already been taken.
There has been no mention of deprecating any of the hassio service calls, there hasn’t even been a hint of that. At this point, it’s people just starting rumors. The only phrase that has been said about deprecating anything, is a potential deprectation of behind the services (not to be confused with HA Actions/Services) that addons use to create backups, and that deprecation will only occur when a replacement service is provided. And that’s directly from the quote when I asked a question during beta.
I’ll quote it again if you missed it:
However, for the future it is a goal to eventually deprecate those handlers when replacement targets/integrations are available in Home Assistant
I.e. the take away from this comment is: There will be a replacement if/when those tools are deprecated. People have been cherry picking the first half of that statement without reading the second half, and it’s spiraled into this “They will remove everything in the future” rumor.
Here is the exact link in discord to my question that started the rumor to begin with:
TLDR: There has no mention of deprecation of any actions/services that offer unencrypted backups.
Thank you. I truly hope you’re correct. It’s easy to misinterpret things when so little specific detail has been offered.
Some of the things which have been said seem to imply that a decision has been taken that encryption is necessary for everyone. There has been no response, in over 600 posts in that other thread, which says unequivocally that an unencrypted option will remain. So people try to read between the lines, and maybe read too much into each word.
I have created a backup, how do I delete it?
Not the actual file created by the backup. How do I delete the created backup “task”.
When opening the backup settings, there is no delete button?!?
I have just created an issue on github:
Restore during onboarding not offered for home assistant container installation.
Question: If I delete one backup, which has been stored on two locations
Will it then be deleted in both or only local (and stay at NC)?
And/or can I select somehow, where to delete?
The main method was changed - manual creation of unencrypted backups from the Backups Settings UI is impossible now.
Other methods are workarounds of the previously working solution. And those methods probably much more difficult for not advanced users.
Option to create unencrypted backups should be in the Backups Settings.
Both. And the 2nd to last backup will be send to n.C.
just try it
Of course I tried it before asking, but am not able to delete dedicated backups, e.g. only the NC one from the last backup run. So this is not possible?
I deleted my last backup for you
Either I misunderstood or something is not working,
But is doesn’t seem to stay at NC
Edit:
created a new backup and It’s uploaded to NC again
Yes, might be.
I wanted to know, how to only delete either or from the last backup run
So either delete only the local one or (esp) delete only the one uploaded to NC. And leave the other not deleted.
I only wanted to know, how this is possible.
… without deleting both and creating a new one with another option/selection (because then it is not the content from the run before anymore). Or file system upload/download or …
So something like a “delete this source” in this three-dot menu area when I’m selecting the backup. or whatever else:
As far as I understand it’s not possible for now, but I also understand they are still planning to improve this feature,
Let’s check what happens if I hit the delete button from the NC account,
I just want to know.
Good to know, there is no conformation box, it’s just “delete” and it’s gone.
then the local copy remains
