I’m having an issue figuring out how to set up automatic backups to a remote Nextcloud file server. I have Home Assistant running on a RPi3 all on its own with nothing else and a separate computer that runs a Nextcloud instance. I found the WebDAV integration and set up a folder on my Nextcloud server that I planned to use for automatic backups, but I can’t figure out how to actually use that folder when it comes to configuring the backup. If I go through the automatic backup settings, at the very end where it has me select locations to save the backups, I have no options shown. Reading up on things, it sounds like I need to set up a storage location via the System->Storage menu, but I’m not sure what to do from here. I thought the WebDAV integration already configured its own folder, but do I need to duplicate that here? If so, what options am I supposed to pick? Do I use the base URL for the file server or the /dav URL I set up in the WebDAV integration? Would it just be considered an NFS filesystem? I would have thought “WebDAV” would have just showed up in the Backup location to begin with.
So I guess I figured it out. I just went ahead and clicked accept on the blank locations screen to set up backups to see what would happen. Once it made a backup I could then change the settings and the WebDAV location was available there. So I’m not sure if it’s some kind of glitch that you can’t select it when you first set up backups for the first time, but it looks like it’s there once you have a backup configured.
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