Backup folder location

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Where does the backup folder hide? I don’t have it and I’ve re-installed the samba addon

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It looks like you’re browsing the config folder. You need to go up one level.

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no wonder, that makes sense! :blush:
I’ll have to re-map the drive.
annoying that you have to map each folder and can’t map the entire hassio…

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Hello, would it be possible to post the actual location of where the backups are saved to? full path.
this would be helpful for those searching for where the backup file location is.

Thank you

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\\homeassistant\backup

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Took a while to figure this one out. I’m running HAOS on a Pi5.

  • SSH into your haos
  • Run docker ps -a to figure out which ID is your homeassistant container
  • view the hostconfig by running: cat /mnt/data/docker/containers/[DOCKER ID]/hostconfig.json

In the json string, find where the “Target” equals “/config”. A little before that is the source.

Something like: (...)"Source":"/mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant","Target":"/config"(...)

So most likely you’ll be able to find the files of the “/config” directory at “/mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant”. You can find the backups directory there too (one level up).

Thanks tkohhhh, you pointed me in the right direction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/113t0fi/comment/j8sr8nm/

For who is interested: I need this location because I need a place to store journalctl log exports. I want to be able to sync those to my oneddrive via rclone for debugging and storing of logs (at the moment I’ve got an unstable system and am trying to figure out what the issue is). So for me the only convenient place is to store them somewhere over there for the time being.