Ability to select Backup destination (HA Core & Container)

jchh · July 25, 2022, 8:10am

Your backup.create in 2022.5 is a lifer-saver for me (as a ‘Core’ user) - thanks so much for doing this!

I run HA ‘core’ on a R-Pi using DietPi which already has a NAS drive mounted. It would be great to be able to select that directory as my default backup.create directory whether commanded by YAML or UI.

Thanks for listening and keep up the awesome work!

PNielsen · July 25, 2022, 12:38pm

Hi jchh!

You definitely should vote for your own feature request

jchh · July 25, 2022, 2:39pm

yikes - well spotted!

PrairieSnpr · July 25, 2022, 3:04pm

Voted for this as well, certainly would be an easier configuration. I worked around it by mounting an NFS share folder as backups in the config directory. This works well and all my backups are now located elsewhere.

jchh · July 25, 2022, 3:15pm

That’s a clever workaround!

The-May · July 25, 2022, 3:50pm

Maybe this will help:

github.com

thomasmauerer/hassio-addons/blob/1ffffaaa1df3a954e04cc13cf06329203ede4b2d/samba-backup/DOCS.md

# Home Assistant Add-on: Samba Backup

Create backups and store them on a Samba share.

## Configuration Options

### Option: `host`

The hostname/URL of the Samba share.

### Option: `share`

The name of the Samba share.

### Option: `target_dir`

The target directory on the Samba share in which the backups will be stored. If not specified the backups will be stored in the root directory.

**Note**: _The directory must exist and write permissions must be granted._

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Doing Backups with this Addon, making everything I wanted.

jchh · July 25, 2022, 11:29pm

Doesn’t that add-on only work for Supervised installs? This feature-request is for Core and Container users.