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 do…

is it encrypted maybe? do an unencrypted backup for debugging (for now) [image] [image] This means: remove the backup files (to make sure you have enough space free) do a manual full backup do steps 1+2 now.

Check your recorder settings. See here: [image] How to keep your recorder database size under control Community Guides Note: This guide was written for an earlier version of Home Assistant (around 2021). Since then, changes have happened, but this guide hasn’t…

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…

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

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.

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

[image] 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.

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

Get 7zip or any other useful program (dont know if winzip is capable enough) Search for the biggest file in the homeassistant.tar.gz

[image] Where am I going wrong, cant open the file

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.

Backup way to big

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francisp (Francis) March 22, 2025, 11:02am 2

Check your recorder settings.

See here: