Automating partial backups

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How can I automatically backup HA - but not backup my media folder each time.

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You can call the service hassio.backup_partial selecting what you wanna backup.

By the way, I love the Google Drive Backup add-on and I use that to manage my backups.
You can select partial backups there as well, and uncheck your media folder:

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Thanks, I knew there had to be a way.

However, I have yet to find any documentation describing the syntax to specify what to not backup so I donā€™t have to maintain the automation every time I add an add-on or whatever.

The google backup add-on is great but I have subscribed to dropbox for years and donā€™t want to have to rent google space too. My current dirty solution is that I use google backup to create the backup, only permit it to upload and keep one backup in the cloud but have ā€˜dropbackā€™ add-on copy the backups it creates to dropbox.

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You can also use this for a local solution, if you have some network attached storage.
Partial backups are supported too.

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Most of these allow partial backups to not only be done automatically but copying the resultant backup elsewhere too: https://www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os/#copying-your-backups-to-another-location

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So, the remaining issue is - how do I construct an automation which does a backup of everything excluding the media folder that does not require maintenance each time the add-on or folder items change over time?
Is there a way to get a list of the add-ons? the folder names? that i can then insert into the automation?
I need this because I use dropbox which noone has yet created a sophisticated backup add-on like the google drive backup.

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Do I understand it right, that Samba backup is not suitable option for you?
That one does does everything, you asked forā€¦ just not on dropbox, but on your own NAS, so your backups are stored locally, not in the cloud.

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Correct, samba requires me to have another computer/nas running. I travel and the only things i leave running are the HA in two separate houses. Also if there was a disaster in my home Iā€™d lose my backups as well as my HA.
So, I want cloud storage using Dropbox which I have subscribed to for my photos etc for years.

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I know this is an old topic, but I had the same problem and couldnā€™t find a clear answer on the forums ā€” maybe this helps someone

If you want to back up everything except the /media folder, you can use a partial backup.

This snippet automatically includes all installed add-ons (so you donā€™t have to maintain the list) and skips /media simply by not listing it under folders:.

  - action: hassio.backup_partial
    data:
      compressed: true
      homeassistant: true
      homeassistant_exclude_database: false
      name: Monthly_backup_{{ states('sensor.current_version') }}_{{ now().date() }}
      addons: |-
        {{ integration_entities('Supervisor')
          | select('match', 'update')
          | reject('match', 'update\.home_assistant')
          | map('device_attr', 'identifiers')
          | flatten
          | reject('eq', 'hassio')
          | list }}
      folders:
        - share
        - addons/local
        - ssl
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Somehow my ā€œnameā€ is not used by HA, and it just creates random backups like this: 85e8ecf2.tar

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Do you see the random name in the UI as well, or only in the filesystem? Are you sure there isnā€™t a typo in the name key?

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This!
Iā€™ve checked the UI of a backup`s page and found all names are there, so filenaming does not matter as long as HA show proper names in UI.