Good evening. My RasPi 4 died after 5 years. I replaced it with a Beelink S12 Intel box. I loaded and dedicated to Home Assistant OS 12.2.
From my old RasPi 4, I have proper .tar backup files I believe.
The backups went to my local NAS, and have nine large and 14 small files.
They are not password protected.
7z opens it just fine and can see 024bd961.tar\homeassistant.tar.gz\homeassistant.tar\data
The tar file is local to the web browser, so no networking issue there.
I never clicked into CREATE MY SMART HOME. Do I have to on a clean install if I am just restoring?
When attempting to restore the backup to a clean install, I get the error Unsupported file format
I still have the old RasPi 4 drive, as it is an SSD, and could hang it off of the new system. In case the backups are damaged, is there a way to create a valid, restorable backup from the drive?
Also, how can I tell which file is a backup I have backups that are 10K and some that are 300M. all are .tar, and all are 8 character hex file names.
Open it with a compression tool and see the content.
Winzip, WinRAR or 7-zip can be used on Windows and Mac probably have similar.
The content should be several more tar files and one of these should be named homeassistant.
I had issue earlier with backups where it crashed under the backup of InfluxDBobno homeassistant.tar existed on the backups Even though the seemed like the backups was successful.
Only one I can think of is that sometimes the browser downloads and uploads the files as text instead of binary.
When that happens it might convert Newline to Newline + Carriage Return or vice versa and that destroys a binary file.
