Thought this might be of use to someone.
I don’t use the google drive backup addon as I don’t like using passwords on my snapshots (as it is impossible to extract files without restoring) and do not want this unprotected data in the cloud.
So I create an automated snapshot every night and use a file sync utility on another always on PC to copy the snapshot. This is then copied to my off-site backup monthly.
Later in the morning I run the snapshot cleanup service to only keep the last 20 snapshots.
The problem is that my snapshots have become huge (820MB+) and while they do complete successfully they do generate time out / api errors. This is despite the liberal use of the exclude option in the recorder.
So instead of doing a full snapshot I now do a partial snapshot of everything except the MariaDB and ESPhome addons. I can live with lost history data and all the esphome files required get backed up in the config folder anyway.
Also I have the MariaDB config saved to a text file for easy restoration.
This has taken my backups from 7 minutes of 70% peak processor use generating an 820MB+ file to 10s of seconds at 20% CPU generating a 60MB file.
There is not a lot of information on how to automate a partial snapshot so I include my automation here (with the old full snapshot config commented out):
- id: daily_backup_at_1_am
alias: Daily Backup at 1 AM
initial_state: true
trigger:
platform: time
at: '01:15:00'
action:
# - service: hassio.snapshot_full
# data_template:
# name: Automated Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}
- service: hassio.snapshot_partial
data_template:
name: "Automated Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"
addons:
# - 15ef4d2f_esphome
- a0d7b954_aircast
- a0d7b954_portainer
- a0d7b954_ssh
- a0d7b954_vscode
- addons_local
- core_duckdns
# - core_mariadb
- core_mosquitto
- core_samba
- core_ssh
folders:
- homeassistant
- share
- ssl
- service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "Creating backup named Automated Backup {{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"
The names of your addons can be found inside a full snapshot or by looking at the URL when viewing the hassio addon page for each addon.
I don’t know what addons_local is but it was in the full snapshot so I included it (it’s empty with my selection of addons). Interestingly it does not show up in the partial snapshot (right hand side).
I just noticed the VSCode addon is responsible for over three quarters of the snapshot size now and as it has the default config and is easy to replace I’ll remove that from the snapshot too.
