Any way to use the SD card for DB storage on HA Green?

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I understand it says the SD card slot is for recovery purposes only, is there a way to override this? I am concerned about the size of my database and eMMC lifetime, have a spare SD card, and the slot is “right there”.

If not, what is the recommended solution in this case for the green. I may upgrade to yellow in the future for the M.2 slot but would like to stick with the green for now.

Note that I have a valid reason why the DB is so large and write heavy given current design limitations. Though I do plan to make a feature request around on-device aggregation support which would resolve a lot of it.

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I couldn’t find a way to use the USB port, but was able to backup to a shared server folder with the Samba Share addon installed.

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I’ve got the google drive backup installed, so I’m covered there. What I’d like to do is move the DB over to actively run off the SD card.

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If anyone else comes across this, apparently it’s quite easy, though I could find no references or help documentation online. Go to Settings->System->Storage and click “Move Data Disk”. My SD card showed up in the dialog and it seems to “just work”.