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?
You read the release notes and set your backups up again.
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.
I did that, yet have the following situation where add-on backup get written to local disk:
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.
backup settings show that the network storage is the only configured location for backups
Same problem here.
I have roughly the same problem, although manual backups will honour backing up to network storage, the automatic backups of add-ons no longer work even though it is specifically set to backup there.
It was working when I originally set it up, however when I replaced the hardware I configured up the the network storage with the same backup files and even UNC but didn’t do it in enough time whilst Home Assistant was running and lost all backups in the Backup view specifically the network icon in the locations column (those on disk were ok). From then on the automatic daily backups did backup to the network location (as well as configured locally) which sorted itself over time. This was not the case of the add-on backups even though the network location is configured for add-on backups it only backs up locally. I’ve tried switching off the network backup location, saving and re-enabling then waiting for the next add-on update but it hasn’t fixed it. The Manual backup including add-ons does respect the backup locations. There isn’t in anything in the normal logs or errors shown either… any ideas?
Ok - finally found this in issues; Backup of addons when upgrading an addon only goes local · Issue #137664 · home-assistant/core, I think this means if I want multiple backup locations that include the system location, I can’t set it up for add-ons to be the network location only.
