I see a lot of people talking about “take a snapshot so you don’t have to reconfigure” and when I went looking for the option to do a snapshot I only see Backup in the Supervisor menu. Am I missing something?
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Version core-2021.10.6
The terminology was recently changes. They are equivalent.
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They are the same thing, but the terminology recently changed. What had been called “snapshots” is now called “backups”. This is a better, more descriptive term, but lots of folks, and existing documentation, still refer to snapshots.
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Thanks, so I did a full backup, which I am thinking in the event of an SD card crash I can load HA on the SD card and then import the TAR file to be back up to where I am currently today with everything already configured?
Yes.
Some custom add-ons don’t restore well in my experience. I keep a file with my config options as a backup just incase. Store the file in your main config directory and it gets backed up with the backup each time.
Don’t forget to take a backup anytime you make significant changes to your setup. A regular offsite backup is a good idea. The Google drive backup add-on works fantastically. There are other similar options for other services out there also.
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Thanks, I backup and then download the backup to my Onedrive manually
I have installed Homeassistant supervised on raspberrypi 4 running on Debian.
I recently updated Homeassistant using the Homeassistant update menu. After the update I noticed that the default Homeassistant media folder contents got deleted . Is this how the update works ?
Also plz guide how to change the default media path in homeassistant supervised.
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