Backup location no longer honored

Configuration
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I configured automated backups using hassio.backup_full last year and set up a folder on my NAS as the backup location.

Since 2025.1, all my backups have been going to the local device, not my NAS drive. The automated backups built into HA don’t meet my needs.

How do I get my backups to get back to my NAS where they belong?

2

You read the release notes and set your backups up again.

3

I do read the release notes every release. There wasn’t any mention of the old backup system being removed, deprecated, or broken, or I wouldn’t have updated to it.

I went and created an automatic backup and then turned it off, and that exposed the settings so I could set my NAS as my only backup location. However, my existing backups using home assistant OS.backup_full still don’t use that.

I tried using action: backup.create as described in the documentation and get an “Error: Action backup.create not found”.

I tried using action: backup.create_automatic and it backed up to the NAS but not with the filename I specified. So it looks like it doesn’t support “name” as data for that action.

Looks like I can have the right filename or the right location, but not both.

Annoying.

Guess I have to hope for 2025.3 to continue improvements to the backup system.

4

I did that, yet have the following situation where add-on backup get written to local disk:

  • automatic backups go to NAS (as expected)
  • manual backups go to NAS (as expected)
  • Add-on update goes to local drive (not as expected or as setup)
5

I, too, have been having this same issue. Automatic backups are stored in the NAS as expected, but manual and add-on update backups are stored locally. This is not the desired effect.

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backup settings show that the network storage is the only configured location for backups

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