So, I really thing it’s awesome the backup functionality is now so advanced. I thought I dive in an I have a Mifi router with SD-card storage, I can access this without any problems on my Windows PC with using this: \192.168.1.1\sdcard\backup\HA (and user name an password)
Now I tried every and all possibilities in that Add Network Storage interface (I thought I needed the samba, and tried all different versions, but also tried the NFS), but I get all non-descriptive errors like these:
Could not unmount Mifi_backup due to: Transaction for mnt-data-supervisor-mounts-Mifi_backup.mount/stop is destructive (mnt-data-supervisor-mounts-Mifi_backup.mount has ‘start’ job queued, but ‘stop’ is included in transaction)
I’m also not sure what to fill in the field of *share name, is that where you paste the path? (or do I just add that in the IP field)?
How is this so intuitive…again
Is there anyone that knows how to do this properly?
I did it last night with my Western Digital PR4100. I had to create a new user and password as well as a directory on my PR4100. I had to set that directory as PUBLIC ← this was the key
Then I was able to use HA to setup the drive. I also used the samba and not NFS.
When it asked for device, I typed in the IP address. Directory name was the name of the PUBLIC directory. Username and password was the new user and password I created.
I just did this last night. In my particular case the folder I wanted to back up to is located here: E:\Dropbox\HomeAssistant_Backups. In Windows, in the properties of the folder HomeAssistant_Backups, I created a network share of the same name. After that \\192.168.1.27\HomeAssistant_Backups is the unc path to the backup folder.
In Home Assistant backup location, I have the server as 192.168.1.27 and the remote share is HomeAssistant_Backups. The protocol is Samba/Windows and of course the Windows user name and password for the credentials.
Ok, thanks guys, you guided me into the right direction!
What I ended up with was:
Server: 192.168.1.1
Samba
Remote share*: sdcard\backup\HA
(no idea why anyone would call this remote share name and not just “path”…but ohh well) *Don’t start this with a slash, because then you get a different error!
login and password
Then that would fail, *non nonsensical error message, but then the pulldown Samba/Windows (CIFS) version appears and when I selected Legacy (2.0) and hit ‘connect’ again…it worked!!