I have configured an automated HA system backup to the network share. It works fine, but for some reason, the backup file is again removed by the HA:
Here is the SMB access log:
And here is the backup configuration in HA:
Any help would be appreciated. 
did you look at the Retention time
Yes, retention time is set to “forever”
After a thorough review of logs on both the NAS and HA Supervisor, I believe I have found the reason for this issue. I am using a Google Drive Backup add-on, and while I ran the HA on the RPi5, in order to save space, I’ve had the option to remove backups from the local system after uploading them to Google Drive. I did not turn this feature off after moving the HA to a virtual machine on the NAS. In the HA Supervisor logs, I could see that it is the Google Drive Backup that accesses the file at the same time, 04.00.39, as the time of file removal on the NAS.
It appears that the Google Drive Backup add-on utilizes the same directory as Home Assistant’s system backups. When the option to delete local backups after uploading to Google Drive is enabled, the add-on removes all files within that directory—regardless of their origin—potentially including unrelated or manually created backups.
Hey,
Thanks for your reply. I have enabled that option. However, it still deleted backups not being created b the add-on.
I don’t know why. Here Google Drive Backup leaves my automatic backups alone (and vice-versa)
Still using both systems.
Not sure either. I’ll try and direct add-on to use the default storage location and hot the SMB share. I hope this helps.
