Backup Core

Installation
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How do I make a consistent backup of Home Assistant while it’s running or alternatively: does anyone have a complete configuration (e.g. systemd configuration and scripts) to do a consistent reliable backup including automated reliable restore?

I have the impression that Home Assistant is cripple-ware, because there is no technical reason for not having the backup feature be implemented in Core.

Many “open-source” projects refuse patches to add SAML either, because they don’t want to run the risk of being useful to people.

2

Settings >> system >> backup

The “backup.create” service may be called in an automation.

I get mixed up but i run docker and it exists and I am sure that is basically HA Core. Not sure what you mean by backup feature not implemented?

Live backup using rsync would be how I would backup a running system

3

What is wrong with copying /config (including hidden files and directories) ?

4

You can backup, but restore is not implemented on Core.

5

That doesn’t work while the system is running.

6

Oeps, I must have been doing it wrong the last 5 years.

7

Why do you think this is related to backup? Or is this just for example purpose to say, " just because Restore Backup is not useful to them doesn’t mean it has no value to others".

Vote for Restore Backup

8

No engineer would have implemented backup in this way unless the goal was to create an inferior version of Home Assistant.

Does Emacs have a “core”-version? Exactly.

9

That’s indeed the case.

10

Does not matter, I have moved several times my HA with that ‘bad backup’, never lost anything.

11

You should learn when to fold.

12

Using rsync would not meet the correctness criterion.