Backup is half the size now?

[megapint]

I back up Home Assistant fairly regularly as I am still tinkering with the configuration regularly. In April, the backup was about 140 MB. As of May, it fell to a 76MB file. Is this something that was changed in Home Assistant? Am worried that maybe some part of the system is n longer being backed up.

I used 7-zip to open the tar file, and inside, the one file that had halved in size was the
homeassistant.tar.gz

I associated that file type with 7zFM, but it will not open the large one from April, or the smaller ones from May.

Appreciate your help.
Cheers

[EDIT]: My backups are password protected, and that is why I cannot open the tar.gz. I can pursue the python script to unpack them, but will not bother if the halving of backup size is an expected outcome.

[tom_l]

Without looking inside there’s no way of knowing.

There are ways to decrypt your backups:

Get files from password protected snapshot?

Here’s how you can do it on the Pi: In the folder where the .tar (not the extracted .tar.gz files) file is, create a new file decrypt.py nano decrypt.py Paste the following: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import getopt import hashlib import tarfile import glob import os import shutil from pathlib import Path from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers import ( Cipher, algorithms, modes, ) def _password_to_key(passwor…

or

decrypt-ha-backup

[WallyR (Wally)]

There have been a few database updates that can affect the size a lot, but when they exactly occurred I am unsure of.