Backup way to big

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Tried posting on Discord as well, but no response. Hope someone can help. I am running on an Rpi 4b

  • Core2025.3.4
  • Supervisor2025.03.3
  • Operating System15.0
  • Frontend20250306.0

Tuesday this week I get a warning that I was out of space on my memory card (32Gb) and I noticed the backup was more than doubled in size of what it used to be. Have considered the use of an SSD, so I went to the store and purchased a Lenovo TP 6 with 1Tb storage. I moved my installation to the SSD. Before I moved it the system reported 953Gb free space on the SSD and after installation I was down to 850. I deleted all backups and made a new one, and it came in at 7Gb. After that the size of the backup keeps getting bigger and bigger and even it I make a minimum backup with only home assistant settings it shows that the size is 7.71Gb. Is there any way to solve this? Do a fresh install on memory card, move to disk, download the backup from google drive and reinstall? Or will I then only “backup” the problem again? Any suggestions?

any answer appreciated.
Freddy

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Check your recorder settings.

See here:

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I have no excluded a lot of entities and more from recorder and even deleted the v2.db file, and the backup was reduced from 8,5Gb to 8. I still belive there must be a hickup somewhere. After running HA for 2+ years and the experience the backup to more than double from one day to the next. That can not be from recorder only, unless one sensor is going crazy, and I do not belive that has happened either.

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My HA is over 6 year old, and my backup is still less then 500Mb. Do you include media ?

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Media is excluded, so I believe something is wrong. When I find time I will probably do a fresh install and then try to restore from backup and see what happens.

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Why not copy the backup file to a computer, extract the contents and determine which file or folder is the culprit?

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image617Ă—451 7.28 KB

This is what I get, and when I open the homeassistant.tar.gz it contains 1406 lines. Thats all I can read out of it.

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With 7zip, you can sort on size. You should look what takes most space.

afbeelding
afbeelding645Ă—840 52 KB

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  1. Get 7zip or any other useful program (dont know if winzip is capable enough)
  2. Search for the biggest file in the homeassistant.tar.gz
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image437Ă—204 8.82 KB

Where am I going wrong, cant open the file

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is it encrypted maybe? do an unencrypted backup for debugging (for now)

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image717Ă—358 12.7 KB

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image729Ă—199 9.87 KB

This means:

  • remove the backup files (to make sure you have enough space free)
  • do a manual full backup
    do steps 1+2 now.
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TY, It looks like the Tapo app is downloading a lot of videos and put it in under Storage. Now I need to find out how to get rid of it.

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After deleting videos, backup is 81.8 Mb. Thanks for all help