Backup restore does not work

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have a backup made in a docker container running Home Assistant 2022.12.8
Now I want to restore this backup into version 2025.4.2-ls96

I’ve created a user, then opened the backup menu, uploaded my backup and now I want to restore it but HA hallucinates that it is encrypted and demands a key. There is no key, it is not encrypted.

Tried to install the old version so I can restore into the same version. Unfortunately there is no restore button in Home Assistant 22.12.8.

During setup there is also no restore function.

Why oh why is there a backup function if restoring is not even a feature.

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Backups work for 99% of cases. To say there is no restore button is just wrong.

Read this.

and this

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Links to unrelated topics regarding other versions of HA are not helpful. You may want to read the message in stead of only the title.

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You can open the backup using 7zip, and manually copy the contents to your /config directory.

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thanks I will try this