Too bad that doesn’t work for me. Since I created a share in the HA configuration, I get this error when I want to back up to another share via Samba Backup (as mentioned, this could be avoided with 2024.x by changing the default storage location of the backups to local):
I don’t have any storage created in HA under system -->storage, if that’s what you mean. I do have “Samba share” installed, but i think it’s not related / needed for samba backup, since samba share only exposes HA files to external device (like PC).
Samba backup itself can connect to external storage and copy backups there. Only thing you need is to create a SMB share on Synology and add user for HA to be able to access it.
But that’s what it was about 
Samba Backup works great for me standalone, but if I (also) integrate an SMB share in HA, then the problems described arise.
hm… then, as Petro said, it must be something else, since it works fine here with this combination.
It’s a big step forward but 5GB is a joke 
My backup fails because it has 16GB. You should consider a paid option for more backup storage space.
Which “combination”? You haven’t included any share in storage like you wrote…
Sorry - my fault. Just found the “missing” option again:
I have the same issue with the Samba_Backup
WARNING: 68819390.tar does not exist.
So forget that.
To get auto Backups to work to a NAS or Local I have setup two different easy automations instead.
You can trigger these manually by an input_button created with the ‘helper’ and a Custom Button on a dashboard or at a Preset time that suits me and directed to NAS or local/backup, unencrypted.
Here is my aurtomation to go to my NAS
alias: Manual Backup NAS
description: Manual Backup
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_button.manual_backupnas
conditions: []
actions:
- action: hassio.backup_full
metadata: {}
data:
compressed: true
homeassistant_exclude_database: false
location: backhass130
name: >-
FULLBackup {{
state_attr('update.home_assistant_core_update','installed_version') }}
time {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S') }}
mode: single
So I now have some good options:-
- manually triggered to NAS unencrypted
- manually triggered to my local/backup unencrypted
- time triggered, (my time not 4:45), daily to my NAS unencrypted
- Auto Encyrpted to my local/backup (via the Auto HA at 04:45 time)
Let’s just hope the supergod’s in the control room don’t break these options… please.
Is it possible to use the backup restore for conversion from
a) RPI 4b with rasbian os 64 and 64 hass docker for rpi TO
b) RPI 4b with hass os
I did not succeed…(me)
What i did:
- source: made a backup in the nabu cloud from my production rpi4b with HASS 64 rpi docker with several HACS integrations
- target: installed an extra (spare) rpi4b with homeassistant os image
- target: connect the device to the same nabu account as the source
- target: selected (click) on the new backup for restore
then i get unknown error - target: try to download the backup from the cloud
then i get Site is not available in the browser - source: i downloaded the bck file from the source to my pc
- target: uploaded the bck file to the target from pc
- target: clicked on the uploaded bck file to recover, entered the key,
- target: it shows: restoring for 2 seconds (strange is a large file 350mb)
- target: it shows: restarting: waited 30 minutes, no screen, so rebooted
- target: old situation shows
Is this scenario anyway a possibility and if not, what is the easiest way to convert from my source 64 with 64 docker to target with hass os ?
Fixed exact this problem by changing the option as above mentioned to local as default location. Now the automatic native backups AND Samba Backup are working as expected. No need for any automation…
Hi, I just checked the backups created by this, in “Home Assistant Google Drive Backup” add-on. One thing I noticed. Compared to a backups that I created in this add-on, the ones that were created by this new Backup feature are marked as “partial backup”, while the ones created from the add-on are “full backup”. The difference is The missing folders when using HA Backup feature are: “Local Add-on Folder” and “SSL Folder”. Is there any plan to include these folders in backup data (chance to enable this in “Backup data”? Thank you!
PSA: An old/alternate interpretation of the 3,2,1 data protection strategy is that you should use two different backup formats to protect against a bug in your software that makes your backups unrestorable.
There is more coverage in the other thread about a flaw in pvizeli’s secure tar format where there is a small but realistic chance that backups won’t be restorable.
See 2025.1: Backing Up into 2025! - #351 by petro
So it’s a good idea to make sure you have regular copies of your configuration/data that are produced by something other than Home Assistant backups.
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I mean combination:
- installed samba share
- installed samba backup
But now i remember that i did some testing with mounted synology backup share inside my test HA and when i moved default backup location to syno share i’ve got such an error. But that was just a test - in practice i don’t have synology share, and my HA backup location is at default (inside HA). As said, samba backup can connect to synology by itself, without mounting share into HA
That’s clear. Luckily I now have a solution for both. HA automatically backs up to the network share and Samba Backup uses its own share. Luckily it works again after finding the setting.
The samba backups, can they actually be used to restore? Since they are not created with the new encryptep backup system?
Backups and restores were not changed. Just an automated gui was added, it happens to only allow encrypted backups.
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It feels like the removal of the backups before performing updates is being downplayed. This seems like a huge change to me. Even if I never use one, it makes me much more comfortable performing updates. With that change gone, I am going update far less often.
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No one has down played that. Not sure where you get this idea from. I was answering Fabio’s question.
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Fixed. Just had to clear cache.
All of my measurement units(?) are missing after the update. ex. °F, %
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In firefox I can’t set the number field for days of backups
in chrome it works.
edit:
even worse,
after setting up the backup it keeps failing.
Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/connection.py:315
integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 21:22:26 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 21:26:46
[546588852576] Error handling message: Error creating backup: 'BackupManager.do_backup_partial' blocked from execution, system is not running - freeze (home_assistant_error) Bart from 192.168.180.154 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0)
[546586622512] Error handling message: Error creating backup: 'BackupManager.do_backup_partial' blocked from execution, system is not running - freeze (home_assistant_error) Bart from 192.168.180.154 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0)
[Edit 2:] after a host reboot, it works